Simon Warnberger

Simon Warnberger (* 1769 in Pullach ; † 1847 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter , etcher and lithographer .

Life

Warnberger received his first lessons in drawing and etching from Joseph Georg Winter . After 1800 he trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1806 he traveled to Italy and then worked out his travel sketches as oil paintings. King Maximilian I of Bavaria appointed him royal court painter in 1810. In 1824 Warnberger became a member of the academy .

Schlehdorf Abbey , painting by
Simon Warnberger

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Simon Warnberger traveled to Austria, Italy and above all Bavaria, where he created numerous drawings and vividly worked watercolors, which are no longer so much committed to the tradition of landscape painting as they convey a closely observed impression of nature. The majority of his oil paintings, however, were created in his Munich studio. Warnberger belonged to the circle of friends of Johann Georg von Dillis , Franz Kobell and Max Josef Wagenbauer , from whom a new tradition of landscape painting was founded.

He was of greatest importance as one of the early explorers of the Bavarian Oberland. In landscape painting, he is considered a forerunner of mood painting . In lithography, he was one of the first to use Alois Senefelder's new technique successfully artistically.

Warnberger's works can be found in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and in the State Collection of Graphics in Munich .

literature

• Barbara Hartwig: Post-Baroque and Classicism. Catalog of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Vol. III. Munich 1978.