Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess
Carl Adolph Heinrich Heß (* 1769 in Dresden ; † July 3, 1849 in Wilhelmsdorf, today City of Vienna , district of Meidling ) was a German animal painter .
Hess formed himself partly under Kloß, partly by studying according to old masters and, especially after traveling through Russia, Hungary and Turkey as an attentive observer, achieved a mastery in the representation of horses. Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1888 praises his horse depictions with the following words: "Few other painters have shown such a deep understanding of the horse races in their connection with people and country as Hess, whose pictures are also excellent in relation to backgrounds and human figures."
Residing in Vienna since 1808, where he became a teacher at the art academy, Hess died on July 3, 1849 in Wilhelmsdorf near Vienna.
Works (selection)
- Horse work (12 sheets, 1807), study sheets for horse lovers
- The Ural Cossacks march through Bohemia, 1799
- Horse heads, lithographs in natural size, Vienna 1825
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Hess, Karl Adolph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1862, pp. 425–427 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt: Hess, Karl Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 296.
- Hess, Karl Adolph Heinrich . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 11 : Harrisburg – Hypereides . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1909, Sp. 602 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Axel Holck : Hess, Karl Adolf Heinrich . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 11 : Hasselmus – Hven . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1921, p. 377 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 575 .
Web links
- Works in the Dresden State Art Collections
- Attempt of a pictorial representation of the war horses of the Austrian imperial state
Individual evidence
- ^ Hess, Karl Adolf Heinrich . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 464.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Carl Adolph Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hess, Karl Adolf Heinrich; Hess, Karl Adolf Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German animal painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1849 |
| Place of death | Vienna |