Franz Horny
Franz Theobald Horny (23 November 1798, Weimar – 23 June 1824, Olevano Romano) was a German painter in the Romantic style.
Biography
He attended the
He remained there until 1817, torn between his
Upon his return to Germany, he worked primarily as a landscape painter. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. As his illness worsened, he went back to Italy in hopes that the climate would be more amenable, and settled in Olevano in 1822.[1] His disease worsened, however and, after much suffering, he died there. He was buried in the local cemetery.
In 1998/99, to celebrate Horny's 200th birthday, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in cooperation with the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, presented "Ein Romantiker im Lichte Italiens", the first full exhibition devoted to Horny's work.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Walther Scheidig (1972), "Horny, Franz", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 640–641; (full text online)
- ^ Franz Horny Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine @ Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Further reading
- ISBN 3-7701-0976-7.
- Walter Scheidig: Franz Horny, Berlin, Henschelverlag, 1954.
External links
- Literature by and about Franz Horny in the German National Library catalogue