German painter b. 1798, Dsseldorf, d. 1863, Mnchen,German painter. After training (1813-17) under Peter von Langer (1756-1824) at the Akademie der bildenden Kenste in Munich, he painted religious subjects under the influence of Peter Cornelius. In 1821 he joined the Lukasbreder, and the circle around Crown Prince Ludwig I of Bavaria, in Rome. Apollo among the Muses (1824; Munich, Neue Pin.), painted for Maximilian I, shows Hess to be among the most gifted of the German artists working in Rome. The influence of Raphael, glowing but carefully harmonized colours, gliding figures and drapery animate this early masterpiece. Among other important works from this time are exquisitely detailed and colouristically sophisticated, intimate character portraits with early Renaissance settings, such as that of Marchesa Marianna Florenzi (1824; Munich, Neue Pin.), as well as fresh and lively Naturalist landscapes from the environs of Rome, for example Campagna Landscape near Ponte Nomentano (1821-6; Hamburg, Ksthalle).   Related Paintings of HESS, Heinrich Maria von :. | Charles II of England in Coronation robes | fairman rogers fyrspann | Classical hunting fox, Equestrian and Beautiful Horses, 182. | Malcy Louise Caroline Frederique Berthier de Wagram, Princess Murat | The Open Window |
Related Artists:
Christian Georg Schutz the Elder
painted Gebirgslandschaft in 1773
Charles Gifford Dyer
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Maufra Maxime Emile Louis
Nantes 1861-Ponce-sur-Loir,Sarthe 1918