Die Maler Conrad Gessner und Heinrich Freudweiler bei Heinrich Wüest im Atelier

Conrad Gessner (1764-1826) points with the mouthpiece of his long pipe to an engraving - or drawn design plan - held by the painter Heinrich Wüest (1741-1821), which shows Alexander Trippel's monument to his father Salomon Gessner (1730-1788, see inv. 821) on Zurich's Platzspitz, unveiled in 1793. On the decisive role of the two in the complex development of this monument, see Alexander Trippel (1744-1793) Skulpturen und Zeichnungen (exh.-cat. Schaffhausen 1993) no. 19. Heinrich Freudweiler (1755-1795) is seated on the left side of the chair (cf. his two self-portraits in the Kunsthaus Zürich, inv. 97 and inv. 445). The dating 1803 is retrospective and contradicts the date of Freudweiler's death; besides, Conrad Gessner was in England from 1796 to 1804. Source