Joseph Georg Jakob Keiser

Joseph Keizer is a Swiss painter born in Zug and died in 1939 in Münchenstein

Joseph Keizer attended the municipal school in Zug and the cantonal school in Zug. He was then employed in the technical office of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Cham ZG. In 1877/78 he attended the technical school for surveyors at the building trades school in Stuttgart.

He then worked for a year and a half in the cadastre of Baden and in Pforzheim. From 1879 to 1881 he studied geodesy at the polytechnic school in Karlsruhe. He has worked on cadastral measurements in Germany and French-speaking Switzerland. He then passed the exam to become a concordat surveyor. In 1883/84 he took a one-year course at the Polytechnic in Zurich.

From 1884 to 1893, he was a drawing teacher at the cantonal school of Zug. In 1887, he worked on the location plan of the city of Zug. From 1893 to 1922, he was a technical drawing teacher at the Basel trade school. In his watercolors and drawings he also devoted himself to views of the city.