carl (karl) hetz
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Johann Karl Hetz is a German painter and professor at the School of Applied Arts in Neuburg am Donau.
He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and for more than 20 years was professor of drawing and modeling at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich.
Hetz painted many genre paintings, architectural sketches and landscapes of Bavaria, Swabia, Tyroli, Italy, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has exhibited a large number of watercolors from these southern countries in Bavarian exhibitions and galleries. Hetz is also a recognized master of interior paintings and genre scenes from the lives of ordinary people and the bourgeoisie in 19th century Europe. Many of his genre paintings were published as illustrations in newspapers and magazines. These works are a valuable source of information about the social trends of the time.
