Heinrich Freudweiler

Heinrich Freudweiler, a Swiss portrait and genre painter, was born at Zurich in 1755, and was first instructed by H. Wüst; he afterwards studied at the Academies at Düsseldorf and Mannheim, and visited Dresden and Berlin, where he became acquainted with Graf and Chodowiecky. In 1785 he returned to Zurich, and died in 1795. He painted several historical scenes relating to his country.