Anton Hickel

Portrait of Princess de Lamballe (Housekeeper Marie Antoinettes ), 1788, Liechtenstein Museum , Vienna

Karl Anton Hickel (* 1745 in Böhmisch-Leipa ; † October 30, 1798 in Hamburg ) was a German - Bohemian painter .

Life

Hickel was born in Bohemian Leipa and studied at the Academy in Vienna . From 1779 the painter went on study trips all over Europe. He stayed in Munich for a long time and portrayed the Elector Carl Theodor . He also traveled to southern Germany and Switzerland , then to Mannheim and Mainz . He became court painter to Emperor Joseph II. In 1786 he also painted his sister Marie Antoinette . He died in Hamburg .

Works (selection)

Works by Anton Hickel can be found in the Historical Museum in Bern , in Oberhofen Castle in Oberhofen on Lake Thun and in Jegenstorf Castle (both castles in the canton of Bern ).

• Princesse de Lamballe (1788) , Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum
• House of Commons (1793/95)
• Engagement by candlelight (around 1790/1798) , Vienna, Belvedere

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Hickel, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 2 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Liselotte Popelka:  Hickel, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 105 ( digitized version ).
• Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , Die Bildenden Künstler Vol. 1, edit. by a committee of the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg, 1854, p. 113, ( online Hamburg State and University Library).
• Friedrich Johann Lorenz Meyer , sketches for a painting of Hamburg , Verlag Friedrich Hermann Nestler, Hamburg, 1801, vol. 1, 3rd issue, SS 275 ff., ( Online Hamburg State and University Library)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIECHTENSTEIN. THE PRINCELY COLLECTIONS. In: liechtensteincollections.at. March 28, 2004, accessed September 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ online ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ on the website of the Belvederes, Vienna ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Anton Hickel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palais Liechtenstein, www.palaisliechtenstein.co: Palais Liechtenstein. In: palaisliechtenstein.com. October 17, 2018, accessed September 22, 2018 .