Daniel Ihly
Born in 1854.
Died in 1910.
Jean Daniel Ihly (listed as birth name) trained in the atelier of Barthélemy Menn, where he attended courses between 1873 and 1876. After stays in Italy, notably in Florence, he returned to Switzerland and ran an atelier in Saint‑Georges (Petit‑Lancy) before settling in Lancy. He practised landscape painting, as well as genre scenes and figure painting, categories documented in the notices recording his activity.
A signed and dated watercolour, « D. Ihly [19]03 », provides a specific example of a signed work that can be placed at the turn of the century. According to one source, his manner is closer to the idiom of Camille Corot than to the Symbolist tendencies developing at the same time.
His work received several distinctions: mentions or medals (Dijon 1887, Paris Exposition universelle 1900, Saint‑Étienne 1905) and the title of laureate at the Zurich exhibition in 1909. The combination of stays abroad, a permanent atelier in the immediate Geneva suburbs, and signed and dated works allows his production to be read as rooted in a landscape practice attentive to the human figure, with a handling attested by watercolours and oils.
