Joseph Heicke

Joseph Heicke, Josef Heike ( born March 12, 1811 in Vienna, † November 6, 1861 ) was an Austrian animal and landscape painter and lithographer and watercolorist.

Life and work

Heicke studied from 1824 to 1826 at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and participated in 1834 at the art exhibitions in St. Anna. He made ​​several study trips, as he was in 1842 in Italy, and later in Hungary and in the Orient. Heicke was often referred to as one of the few major artistic descendants of Friedrich Gauermann. However, he was on his numerous landscapes with animals, which still betrayed the sentimental impact of the lingering Biedermeier period and let in the treatment of figurative details, the accuracy, naturalness and unbiasedness sometimes miss, not very inventive. So it assessed his contemporaries, of which, however, is given at the same time that Heicke could assure alive with some captured scenes from the revolutionary years of 1848 and 1849, the popularity of Viennese society circles. In addition, he earned as one of the most prolific and versatile lithographer altwienerischer embossing attention. Even in military circles to Heicke could enjoy many jobs, especially his full-length portraits of riders were popular.

Many of Heickes works are now in Austrian museums (eg Museum of Military History, Vienna Museum ), but even more so in private ownership, so that the paintings will be offered again at art auctions.

Works (excerpt)

• Portrait of Franz Joseph Henry of Schlik, Count of Bassano and white churches (1789-1862), 1852. Oil on canvas, 40 × 53 cm, Museum of Military History, Vienna
• Ivan Forray before his Ortienreise 1842, 1845, watercolor on paper, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
• Mozart's funeral, 1860, lithograph, University of Salzburg library
• Coffee Drinking Arabs front of a tent, 1842, oil on wood, 22 × 27 cm, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York