Konrad Horny
Konrad Horny (born November 1764 in Mainz , † November 7, 1807 in Weimar ) was a German painter , draftsman and engraver .
Life
Horny was a landscape painter in the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory until May 1784 . From 1785 he lived in Weimar. In 1792 he accompanied Goethe to the army outside Mainz . He had painted some rooms in Goethe's house on Frauenplan in 1794/95. From 1795 he was a teacher at the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar . He was the father of Franz Horny , whom he himself taught at the drawing school.
Horny was also an art dealer . In 1801 he received the concession to open his own publishing book and art business. The government began to make the granting of concessions more open, so that in addition to Friedrich Justin Bertuch's company, other publishers such as Horny could emerge. Horny also created works with Georg Melchior Kraus .
meaning
Horny's importance as a graphic artist is mainly based on the landscape painting of ancient subjects in Italy . He was a classicist artist . It is therefore no coincidence that a drawing of the famous Laocoon group comes from him , which was engraved in copper by Johann Christian Ernst Müller . In the Schillerhaus Weimar there is a colored etching , a view of the island and city of Lipari from the east side from the year 1795. There are also drawings by him from the Park on the Ilm in Weimar . This includes a drawing of the artificial ruin made in 1786 with the spherical sundial in front of it below a pointed arch fragment . According to Horny's drawing, the ball had a band of numbers, which can no longer be recognized. Because of the number band, the ball is clearly recognizable as a sundial. Two lion heads protrude from the wall to the left and right of the pointed arch fragment. This is not the only representation of Horny's " artificial ruin ", as there is one on the west side.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Katharina Middell: The Bertuchs must have luck everywhere in this world: the publisher Friedrich Justin Bertuch and his Landes-Industrie-Comptoire around 1800, Leipzig 2002, p. 105
- ↑ [1] Arne Zerbst: Schelling and the fine arts: On the relationship between the art-philosophical system and concrete work knowledge , Munich 2011, p. 193.
- ↑ Susanne Müller-Wolff: A landscape garden in the Ilmtal: The history of the ducal park in Weimar
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horny, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, draftsman and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1807 |
| Place of death | Weimar |