HOECHLE, Johann Nepomuk


HOECHLE, Johann Nepomuk

Artist

(b. 1790, München, d. 1835, Wien)

Details

German painter of battle scenes and genre painter, son of Johann Baptist Hoechle. He studied under Wilhelm von Kobell in Munich, then in 1800 went to Vienna, where he studied under Michael Wutky and Friedrich Heinrich Füger at the Vienna Academy, then spent many years in Paris at the studio of Ignace Duvivier, a painter of battle scenes. He returned to Vienna and in 1833 became his father's successor as court painter and Kammermaler. His works consist of paintings of war and peasant scenes, and paintings of events in Emperor Franz's life. //


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Artists by letter H
Artist nationality German