Joseph Roos
Joseph Roos (born October 9, 1726 in Vienna ; † August 25, 1805 there ) was an Austrian painter who worked mainly in Dresden.
Life
His great-grandfather was the painter Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685), his grandfather Philipp Peter Roos (1651–1705). He was tutored by his father Cajetan Roos (1690-1770), called "Gaetano Rosa". After completing his apprenticeship in Vienna, he traveled to Dresden at the age of 21 to work as a decorative painter under the guidance of Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena . From 1749 to 1750 Roos participated in the renovation of the opera house in the Zwinger and in its further redesign in 1753 under Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni (1695–1766). Due to the opera fire in 1849, these testimonies are no longer available. In the meantime, Roos stayed in Berlin and created six drawings, today in the possession of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett . From 1758 he lived permanently in Dresden and worked as a court painter and teacher. When the academy was founded in Dresden in 1764, he became a member of the same and taught in the landscape subject. A year later he held the professorship for landscape painting. Due to irreconcilable differences between Roos and his academy colleague Giovanni Battista Casanova , in which even their students were involved, Roos moved to Vienna in 1769 and found a job as director of the Imperial Gemäldegalerie.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Roos (Rosa), Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874, pp. 335–337 ( digitized version ).
- Anke Fröhlich: Landscape painting in Saxony in the second half of the 18th century. Landscape painter, draftsman and etcher in Dresden, Leipzig, Meißen and Görlitz from 1720 to 1800 . Weimar 2002, p. 107 ff.
Web links
- Anke Fröhlich: Roos, Joseph . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roos, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1726 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1805 |
| Place of death | Vienna |