Johann Gerhard Huck (1759 - 1811)

Johann Gerhard Huck

Johann Gerhard Huck was a German artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is known as a painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and copperplate engraver.

Huck early in his career worked at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, then studied with the famous engraver Valentine Green in London. The master founded the Academy of Art in Hanover and was court engraver to the Hanoverian royal court. He was also a member of the Chalcographic Society of Dessau. Among his famous works is a portrait of Baron and patron of the arts Friedrich Moritz von Brabach.