Johann August Heinrich

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johann August Heinrich (born August 17, 1794 in Dresden , † September 27, 1822 in Innsbruck ) was a German painter.

Life

Heinrich first studied at the Academy in Dresden and then went to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1818 he returned to Dresden and became a student of Caspar David Friedrich . He died at the age of only 28 in Innsbruck during a trip to Italy , a country that then attracted many German artists.

Works

As a pupil of Caspar David Friedrich, Heinrich was a painter and draftsman, a romantic who gave rise to great hopes. The model of Johan Christian Clausen Dahl can also be recognized in his works . Heinrich dealt primarily with landscape painting . It is largely wrongly forgotten today.

  • At the edge of the forest (Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neuer Meister, inv. No. 2663), 1819/20, oil on canvas laid down on cardboard, 21 × 26 cm
  • Felsenschlucht in Uttewalder Grund in Saxon Switzerland (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1820, oil on canvas
  • Watzmann promontory (Oslo, National Gallery), 1820, watercolor, 32.5 × 41.3 cm

The paintings

  • View of the Kahlenberg from Grinzing
  • View of the Danube from Grinzing

were exhibited in the Vienna Belvedere in 2015 on the theme of the Vienna Congress 1814/1815, were stolen from private property in early July 2018 and discovered in the same month at a dealer, both in Vienna.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolen Heinrich paintings surfaced orf.at, July 28, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Painting sold: Art thriller solved: cleaning lady exposed as thief krone.at, July 28, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Johann August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1822
Place of death innsbruck