J. B. ; Jakob Burckhardt / Bourckhardt ; Mr. James Burckhardt ;
1808 in Sumiswald, Bern, Switzerland
1867
Boston or Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
taught by Maximilien de Meuron ; studied in Munich & Rome ;
Switzerland
glaciologist and ichthyologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873): Contributions Nat. Hist. US 1857-62 ; entomologist Thaddeus William Harris (1795-1856): Insects (1862) ; -> Louis Agassiz (1807-1873): A Journey in Brazil (Boston 1868) ; J. B. accompanied Agassiz to expeditions in the Swiss Alps & in Brazil where he made more than 3000 watercolours for Agassiz between 1866 and 1867 ;
geologist -> Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) ; lithographer -> Auguste Sonrel (1825 c. -1879) ;
zoological, entomological, and landscape drawing, watercolour, and painting ;
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, MA ;
AKL 15 1997: 185 ; ThB5 1911: 262; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; DBE ; DBI ; Brun: Schweiz. Künsterlexikon ; Sammlung bernischer Biog ; Christoph Irmscher: L Agassiz 2013 ; R. H. Silliman in Patrick Wyse Jackson: 4 Centuries Geol Travel 2007: 258 ; Kury 2014: 157-9 ; Anderson P. Antunes: A rede dos invisiveis: una analise dox auxilares na expedicao de Louis Agassiz au Brazil 1865-1866, Diss. in MA Hist. Science, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, 2015, esp. pp. 34, 54, 99, 121, 128 ;
J. B. lived & worked also in Neuchâtel and in Bern.
Further Place of Activity: Germany (Munich), the United States of America, Italy (Rome), and Brazil (travelled around 1867).
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