Artist

Daniel Cornelius Gesell

Daniel Cornelius Gesell is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at City Museums Freiburg.

Daniel Gesell painted small, quiet portraits in the early 1800s, think family members, shopkeepers, and children with steady, no-nonsense expressions. His brush or pencil captured details like a glass trader’s buttons or a child’s tangled hair in Porträt eines Jungen (Studie). These weren’t grand statements; just honest pictures of people who lived in his town.

Tap Bildnis des Glashändlers Johann Spiegelhalder to meet a man who sold mirrors and glass, forever frozen in the moment he sat for his portrait.

Works by Daniel Cornelius Gesell

Collections represented

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