Eduard Kinkelin
Born in 1797.
Died in 1879.
Eduard Kinkelin was a flower painter whose activity took place mainly between 1818 and 1850 as a teacher in Murten. He also produced cadastral surveys of the town and its surroundings. His participation in the Swiss art exhibition in Bern in 1824 is notable, where he presented a work inspired by William Tell, followed by a still life in 1857.
Moreover, his coat of arms appears in Engelhard’s chronicle of Murten, published in 1828.