Franz Horny

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Franz Horny in Rome; Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein , 1820
Self-Portrait as a Whole Nude (1821)

Franz Theobald Horny (* 23. November 1798 in Weimar , † 23. June 1824 in Olevano Romano in Rome ) was a German painter of romanticism .

Life

Franz Horny attended the painting and drawing school in his hometown, led by Goethe's adviser Johann Heinrich Meyer , where his father Konrad Horny also taught. The meeting with the art historian , collector and patron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr , who took him on a trip to Rome in 1816 and placed him as a pupil in the studio of Joseph Anton Koch , was decisive for his further career . Horny stayed there until 1817 and during this time was accepted into the German-Roman artistic circles around his teacher as a representative of the classical ideal landscape on the one hand and around the Nazarenes such as Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld on the other.

View of Olevano, around 1821

Horny went on work trips with Rumohr to Olevano in the Sabine Mountains and to Frascati . On one of these trips he met Peter von Cornelius, who enlisted him to work on his frescoes in the Casino Massimo . After Cornelius returned to Germany in 1818, Horny mainly worked as a landscaper. This year, his tuberculosis disease came to light for the first time. He retired to Olevano, but often came to Rome. From the autumn of 1822 he lived permanently in Olevano, where he died after a serious illness in 1824 and where his grave is also located.

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Women at the well by Olevano, around 1822

Soon after his death, Horny was always mentioned together with Carl Philipp Fohr , emphasizing the particular clarity of the landscape conception of the two artists who died early. In addition, Horny had a strong impact on the Nazarenes' artistic conceptions, but with his work he gained a position of his own thanks to the graphic inventiveness of his drawings and the suggestive use of line and color as design elements. In doing so, however, he was more attached to the ideal landscape and less to the study of nature.

In 1998/99, on Horny's 200th birthday, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in conjunction with the Weimar art collections, presented an exhibition called “A Romantic in the Light of Italy”, which presented the artist's complete oeuvre for the first time with a concentrated selection.

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SURNAME Horny, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horny, Franz Theobald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1824
Place of death Olevano Romano