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Joseph Anton Koch

Joseph Anton Koch The Wetterhorn with the Reichenbachtal oil painting on canvas
The Wetterhorn with the Reichenbachtal
Painting ID::  2215
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Joseph Anton Koch The Wetterhorn with the Reichenbachtal oil painting on canvas



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  Joseph Anton Koch
  1768-1839 Austrian Joseph Anton Koch Galleries was an Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement. The Tyrolese painter left academic training in the Karlsschule Stuttgart, a strict military academy, and traveled through France and Switzerland. He arrived in Rome in 1795. Koch was close to the painter Asmus Jacob Carstens and carried on Carstens' 'heroic' art, at first in a literal manner. After 1800 Koch developed as a landscape painter. In Rome he espoused a new type of 'heroic' landscape, revising the classical compositions of Poussin and Lorrain with a more rugged, mountainous scenery. He left Rome in 1812 and stayed in Vienna until 1815, in protest of the French invasion. During this period he incorporated more non-classical themes in his work. In Vienna he was influenced by Friedrich Schlegel and enthusiasts of old German art. In response, his style became harsher, and this new approach had a wide influence on German landscape painters who visited Rome.
  The Wetterhorn with the Reichenbachtal
  1824 Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur

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