Franz Kobell (1749 - 1822)

Franz Kobell

Franz Kobell was a German painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is known as a painter, draughtsman, architectural landscape painter, landscape painter, and brother of the artist Ferdinand Kobell.

Franz Kobell was court painter to the Elector Maximilian III of Bavaria. In addition to a small number of oil paintings, he produced more than 20,000 drawings of architectural landscape subjects, possessing the ability to work quickly and easily with pen and watercolor. His works ended up in various public and private collections.