Heinrich Ambros Eckert (1807 - 1840)

Heinrich Ambros Eckert

Heinrich Ambros Eckert was a German battle painter.

He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and specialized in military subjects. Eckert worked with the painter Dietrich Monten on illustrations for a publication about the German Federal Army, which included two hundred lithographs. The two artists also prepared drawings for a series of color lithographs of Russian military uniforms published as part of the Sämmtliche Truppen von Europa, published in parts between 1838 and 1843 with German and French signatures.