Heinrich Füger
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Heilbronn
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, Württemberg
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– 5 November 1818 Vienna
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) was a German
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portrait
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and historical painter.
Biography
He was a pupil of Guibal in StuttgartStuttgart
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and of Oeser
Adam Friedrich Oeser
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in Leipzig
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. Afterward he traveled and spent some time in Rome
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and Naples
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, where he painted fresco
Fresco
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es in the Palazzo Caserta. On his return to Vienna
Vienna
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he was appointed court painter, professor
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and vice director of the Academy
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria.- History :The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy by the court-painter Peter Strudl, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701 he was ennobled as Baron of the Empire...
, and in 1806 director of the Belvedere Gallery. Among his historical paintings are: “The Farewell of Coriolanus” (Czernin Gallery, Vienna), “Allegory on the Peace of Vienna” (1801), “The Death of Germanicus” (1789), “The Murder of Caesar”, and “Bathsheba” (Budapest Gallery). Among his portraits are those of the Emperor Joseph II
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
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, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Wilhelmine of Württemberg, Queen Caroline of Naples, and Lord Nelson
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(National Portrait Gallery, London). He painted in the classic style of David and Mengs
Anton Raphael Mengs
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and was inclined to be theatrical.
Füger was also a teacher; among his pupils was Gustav Philipp Zwinger
Gustav Philipp Zwinger
Gustav Philipp Zwinger , painter and etcher, was born at Nuremberg. He was the son and pupil of the painter and engraver Sigmund Zwinger , now chiefly remembered as a teacher. Gustav completed his studies under Heinrich Füger in Vienna, and returning to his native town, became in turn professor and...
.