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König, Franz Niklaus
(b Berne, 6 April 1765; d Berne, 27 March 1832). Swiss painter and printmaker. He studied drawing under Marquand Wocher (1760–1830) and Sigmund Freudenberger in Berne while working in his father’s signmaking shop. He was also taught engraving by Balthazar Anton Dunker. Having been drafted into the army, he published a collection of engravings of military uniforms and a series of scenes of army life. In 1797 König moved to Interlaken, where he produced a series of hand-coloured engravings of rural subjects and two albums of local views, Souvenirs des objets les plus remarquables d’Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald et Hasli (1805) and Souvenirs des environs d’Interseen (1806). He also made a number of studies of Swiss costumes.
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