Paintings 19th Century — A499: Fine Art
Johann Heinrich Richter was a German painter. He studied jewellery craftsmanship in Koblenz with his father. Between 1822 and 1827 he studied painting in Paris with Anne-Louis Giroud-Triozon and François Gérard.
Johann Heinrich Richter painted historical pictures at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the same time was actively engaged in portrait painting.
Richter's works are represented in various museums in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as being part of some private collections.
Johann August Nahl der Jüngere was a German painter of Swiss origin, master of portrait and mythological genres. He studied painting under Heinrich Tischbein in Kassel.
Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess was a German animalist, battalionist and teacher. He studied the works of the old masters at the Dresden Gallery.
Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess travelled extensively in Russia, Hungary, Turkey and Britain, studying different breeds of horses and achieved mastery in their portrayal.
He lived in Vienna from 1808, where he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1825 he published a collection of life-size lithographs of horse heads.
He was an honorary member of the Berlin Academy of Arts.
Friedrich Preller the Elder was a German landscape painter and etcher. From 1832 he was a professor at the Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule in Weimar. He was the father of the artist Friedrich Preller the Younger.
Eugene von Guerard full name Johann Joseph Eugen von Guérard was a British artist of Austrian origin. He studied landscape painting in Germany at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts and travelled extensively. The most important period of his artistic career was spent in Australia.
Eugen von Guérard was appointed First Master Painter at the National School of Fine Arts and Curator of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in 1870. And for eleven years he held a teaching position.
Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a German-born American landscape painter. He represented the Dusseldorf School of painting and was a member of the Hudson River School. He quickly achieved commercial success and began to earn good money, which allowed him to travel a great deal.
Herman Herzog settled in the United States at the end of the 1860s. He devoted a considerable part of his work to his journey through the western states to California in 1873. He also frequently visited and worked in Maine and Florida.
Johann Georg Valentin Ruths was a German painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a landscape painter.
Ruths painted a variety of natural landscapes, including forests, mountains, plains, desert places and villages. He most often depicted the lower Elbe River, as well as Italian and Swiss vistas. His paintings, imbued with an elegiac mood, are still popular in Germany and are common in galleries and private collections. Some of his famous works are "Evening in the Sabine Mountains", "North German Oak Tree", "The Grave of a Rich Man on the Baltic Coast", "The First Spring Day", "Misty Morning in the Forest" and others.
August Albert Zimmermann was a German artist. The eldest of the artist brothers Max, Robert and Richard Zimmermann.
Albert Zimmermann studied painting at the Dresden University School of Fine Arts and, from 1831, at the Munich Academy. In Munich the artist created a school of landscape painting that was popular with the locals. Since 1857 August Albert Zimmermann is professor of painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.
Zimmermann was a major representative of heroic-historical landscape painting. He chose subjects for his canvases as a rule among mountainous terrain, often using events from biblical history. Later he created poetic pictures of idyllic nature.
Johann Joachim Faber was a German landscape painter and printmaker. He initially worked on historical subjects. During his travels to Italy he became interested in landscape painting, in which he became known.
George Andries Roth was a Dutch landscape painter, a pupil of George Peter Westenberg.
George Andries Roth lived and worked in Amsterdam. Since 1839 he was a member of the Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam). He painted mainly forest landscapes, city and river views.
Louis Catoir, full name Johann Ludwig Catoir, German landscape painter. His pupil was Gustav Jacob Canton.
Louis Catoir participated in art exhibitions in Berlin, Magdeburg, Halle, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg. His son, Theodor Catoire, was also a painter and draughtsman; around 1862 he founded a lithographic workshop in Mainz.
Jan Hendrik van Grootveld is a Dutch painter and draftsman. He attended evening classes at the City Academy of Drawing and Painting in Den Bosch.
Many of van Grootveld's paintings of pub-goers playing cards, smoking, drinking, dancing and kissing have survived. He drew inspiration for these paintings from memories of his youth, as his mother at one time kept a café for extra income. He also picked up the nineteenth-century Western European Romanticism trend, depicting candlelit scenes. He was not limited to bar guests, but also painted peasant families, journeymen, markets and shops. In addition, his works with river and cityscapes are known, and some paintings show a peasant's house or a church in the background.
Max Thedy, full name Maximilian Eduard Gallus Thedy, German portrait painter, graphic artist and printmaker. He studied painting at the Munich Academy of Art.
In 1919, Max Thedy became a professor at the Bauhaus and in 1921 at the reconstituted State Academy of Fine Arts.
Friedrich Boser, full name Karl Friedrich Adolf Boser was a German genre painter and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf school.
Friedrich Boser first studied painting at the art academies in Dresden and Berlin, from 1837 he attended the 2nd class of historical painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. From 1841 to 1843 he studied genre and portrait painting there, which he has been mainly engaged in ever since.
Friedrich Boser paid great attention to the subtlety of painting and the detailed study of objects. He also tried his hand at literary subjects.
Adelheid Dietrich was a German floral artist.
Adelheid Dietrich's paintings in the style of 17th century Dutch floral painting are remarkable for their extraordinary precision. She has exhibited her paintings in Dresden, Berlin, Bremen and Kassel.
Carl Hilgers was a 19th century German landscape painter.
Carl Hilgers liked to paint winter landscapes shrouded in mist, often of locations around Düsseldorf. The paintings have a romantic character which is enhanced by occasional figures.
Carl Hilgers was a 19th century German landscape painter.
Carl Hilgers liked to paint winter landscapes shrouded in mist, often of locations around Düsseldorf. The paintings have a romantic character which is enhanced by occasional figures.
