Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch

Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch, ennoblement in 1805, ( born September 10, 1758 in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, † December 31, 1838 Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg ) was a German painter.

Life

Hetsch is the son of Württemberg court musician Christian Heinrich Hetsch. With 13 years Hetsch tried in 1771, without his parents' knowledge, successfully inducted into the High School Charles in Stuttgart, where he was accepted as a pupil of the painter Nicolas Guibal and Adolf Friedrich Harper. One focus of his training was the landscape paintings.

Through his love for the theater Hetsch made ​​in Stuttgart acquaintance with Johann Heinrich Dannecker and Friedrich Schiller, he was also included in their circle of friends soon. Funded by his teachers, Hetsch went in 1780 to Paris, where he became a pupil of Joseph Marie Vien and Claude Joseph Vernet. Hetsch was also influenced by his own admission, from the painting of Jacques -Louis David.

After two years of study in Paris, Hetsch returned back to Württemberg in 1782 and settled in his native city as a freelance artist. After several successful contracts Hetsch was appointed by Duke Carl Eugen court painter. With the financial support of the Württemberg court Hetsch could begin to study in Rome for two years in the spring of 1785 to the techniques of painting style of the Old Masters from Giotto, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio, among many others, here not individually listed Maestris to study.

1787 Hetsch returned to Stuttgart, where he founded his workshop. 1795 promoted him Duke Carl Eugen professor of painting, connected to a teaching position at the Art Academy in Stuttgart. 1805 reached Hetsch with his appointment as Director of the Royal Gallery of Stuttgart the peak of his career. Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch was awarded on February 4, 1808 the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Civil Merit and the personal, non- hereditary nobility involved.

Hetsch one definitely still on the artists of classicism, though he never found a completely unique style and the shade was just his French teacher as Vien and Vernet. His work includes illustrations from mythology as well as from the history and in the later pictures give a Christian themes focus.

The architect Gustav Friedrich von Hetsch is his son.

Painting Gallery portrait works

  • Caroline Heigelin ∞ Scheffauer
  • Young Girl
  • Ida Brun with the bust of her mother Friederike Brun
  • Family von Zeppelin
  • Gottlieb Christian Heigelin
  • Baroness von Bouwinghausen

Works (selection)

  • The over the removal of Briseis wrathful Achilles
  • The blind Oedipus and his daughters before Theseus
  • The departure of Regulus from his family
  • Brutus of Porcia
  • Papirius and the Gallic warrior
  • Marius on the ruins of Carthage
  • Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
  • Daniel in the Lion's Den
  • Joseph in prison
  • Maria's interview with Porcia, the wife of Pilate
  • Odin's descent into hell
  • Knight Albonack, the King Alfred his daughters showing
  • King Frederick and his entourage before the castle Monrepos

Philipp Friedrich von Hetschs important family effigies his painting of the upper building director Reinhold Ferdinand Fischer and his wife Juliane Fischer, nee Bilfinger, from the Württemberg Bilfinger family has to arise, and their three joint daughters Friedericke Louise Hein Ricke Franziska, Franziska Juliane and her young son Ferdinand. The landscape- painting is one of the holdings of the Stuttgart State Gallery.

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