Ferdinand Kobell (1740 - 1799)

Ferdinand Kobell

Ferdinand Kobell was a German painter of the second half of the eighteenth century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, printmaker and landscape painter.

Kobell painted landscapes inspired by the style of Nicholas Berchem. His oil paintings are in many German galleries, but he was much more skillful, according to critics, in conveying the states of nature with an engraving needle. Kobbel is considered a master of landscape etchings, which are recognized as some of the best of the 18th century.

Kobell had seven children, including Wilhelm von Kobell, who also became a landscape, animalist and battle painter.