Franz Kobell

Franz Josef Hess Peter Innocent (* November 23, 1749 in Mannheim, † January 14, 1822 in Munich) was a painter, etcher and draftsman.

Life

After a commercial apprenticeship at Mainz KOBELL 1762 returned to Mannheim and was encouraged by his elder brother Ferdinand KOBELL in the decision to devote himself to an artistic activity. He completed his training at the Mannheim drawing academy, then received by Karl Theodor of the Palatinate a pension that allowed him to study in Italy 1779-84, and perverse in Rome with the painter Friedrich Müller and the sculptor Alexander Trippel. There KOBELL also met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from whom he received an order for multiple drawings. 1784 Hess Peter returned back to Germany and settled in 1785 in Munich down. Karl Theodor appointed him court painter. Inspired by Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin painted KOBELL ideal landscapes and left more than 20,000 landscape and architectural ink drawings and etchings.