Peter von Hess

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Peter von Hess
Grave of Hess on the old southern cemetery in Munich location
Portrait medallion on the tombstone of Hess

Peter Heinrich Lambert Hess (also Heß ), from 1861 Ritter von Hess , (born July 29, 1792 in Düsseldorf , † April 4, 1871 in Munich ) was a German battle and genre painter .

Life

Hess was the son of the engraver Carl Ernst Christoph Hess , from whom he also received his first artistic lessons. From 1800 Hess created his first engravings ; mostly he preferred depictions of animals here .

At the age of 14, Hess was admitted to the Munich Art Academy in 1806 . He was able to do his military service in the general staff of Prince Carl Philipp von Wrede . He accompanied this during the wars from 1813 to 1815 and also to the Congress of Vienna . During this time, Hess created a large number of sketches, which then formed the basis for his oil paintings .

Later on, Hess repeatedly went on study trips through Switzerland , Italy and Austria . In his early work the pictures were kept rather small; the first large-format picture by Peter Hess was the depiction of the battle of Arcis sur Aube in May 1814.

In 1833 he accompanied King Otto I to Greece and held there a. a. its entry into Nauplia . In 1835 a painting in oil with many portraits was made over it ; 1839 a second showing Otto's reception in Athens (both today in Munich, Neue Pinakothek ). In 1839, Hess accepted Tsar Nicholas I's invitation to Saint Petersburg and Moscow and portrayed the main events of 1812 in eight large battle pictures. In the arcades of the Munich court garden , he and his assistant Nilson executed 39 frescoes from the history of the Greek independence movement.

In 1861 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal Bavarian nobility. He also received the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit of St. Michael in 1838 and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 1853 . He was also honored with foreign medals, for example as an officer of the Belgian Leopold Order and with the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class.

Hess died at the age of 78 on April 4, 1871 in Munich. The grave of Hess is in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Gräberfeld 13 - Row 1 - Place 50/51). Location

His sons Max and Eugen were also active as painters.

  • At the Chiemsee

  • Plundering Cossacks (1820) Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin

  • Saint Leonhard's Festival in Fischhausen (1825)

  • Entry of King Otto into Nauplia (1835)

  • Reception of King Otto of Greece in Athens (1839)

  • The Battle of Borodino (1843)

  • The Greek revolutionary Alexander Ypsilantis crossed the Prut near Sculeni in 1821 .

  • Carl von Mannlich , Bavarian officer (drawing around 1820)

Works (selection)

  • Victory report by Field Marshal Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg to the allied monarch Emperor Franz I of Austria, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia and Alexander I of Russia after the battle of Leipzig on October 19, 1813 , oil on cardboard, approx. 22 × 40 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna.
  • Battle of Arcis sur Aube
  • Defense of the Kinzig Bridge near Hanau
  • Skirmishes between French dragoons and Austrian hussars
  • Don Cossacks with captured French farmers
  • Tomorrow from Partenkirchen
  • The Battle of Borodino
  • Entry of King Otto into Nauplia
  • Bivouac of Austrian troops (1823)
  • Sutler scene oil / wood (1825) Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • Attack by Austrian Uhlans oil / wood (1828)
  • Palikaren near Athens (1829) Old National Gallery Berlin
  • Battle of Bodenbühl (1829)
  • Battle near Wörgl Oil on canvas (1832) Munich Residence

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter von Hess  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1861, p. 28.
  2. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1861, p. 44.
  3. ^ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1861, p. 89.
  4. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1861, p. 101.
  5. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1861, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Peter Ritter von (full name); Hess, Peter; Hess, Peter; Hess, Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1871
Place of death Munich