Meinrad Iten

In 1891 the landscape painter, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, convinced the Prussian government to award him a scholarship; the first ever given to a foreigner.

In 1896, he held a joint exhibition with Crola at the Galerie Eduard Schulte [de] and received good reviews.

In 1899 his former mentor, Janssen, offered him a position at the Akademie, but he declined to accept and returned to his home town in Switzerland.

There, he met Wilhelmine Hess, the daughter of a wealthy Hamburg butcher shop owner, who was vacationing in the area.

After World War I, his commissions dwindled, due to his conservative style, so he concentrated on drawings; many of them in red chalk.

[2] His great-granddaughter, the British composer Issie Barratt, has created a Meinrad Iten Suite; eleven of his paintings set to music, in a manner reminiscent of Pictures at an Exhibition.