Franz Theobald Horny
Italian country life
A Seated Italian Shepherd with a Small Child on his lap
A Southern Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Jar on her Head
Illustrations
Women at the Well before Olevano
Forest landscape with large knobby treesFranz Theobald Horny
Franz Theobald Horny (23 November 1798, Weimar - 23 June 1824, Olevano Romano) was a German painter in the Romantic style.
Life
He attended the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, where he studied under Johann Heinrich Meyer, Goethe's advisor on artistic matters.[1] His father, Konrad Horny, was also a teacher there. A decisive turn in his career came when he met the art historian, collector and patron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, who took him along on a trip to Rome[1] and helped to place him as a student in the workshop of Joseph Anton Koch. He remained there until 1817, torn between his German-Romantic upbringing on one hand and the influences of the Nazarene movement on the other. He accompanied Rumohr on trips to Olevano and Frascati. On one of these trips, he met Peter von Cornelius who used his connections to obtain work for Horny painting frescoes at the "Casino Massimo", owned by the Marquis Carlo Massimo.[1]
Upon his return to Germany, he worked primarily as a landscape painter. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. As his illness worsened, he went back to Italy in hopes that the climate would be more amenable, and settled in Olevano in 1822.[1] His disease worsened, however and, after much suffering, he died there. He was buried in the local cemetery.
In 1998/99, to celebrate Horny's 200th birthday, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in cooperation with the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, presented "Ein Romantiker im Lichte Italiens", the first full exhibition devoted to Horny's work.[2]
References
Walther Scheidig (1972), "Horny, Franz", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German) 9, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 640–641, (full text online)
Franz Horny @ Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Further reading
Jens Christian Jensen: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen der deutschen Romantik. DuMont Buchverlag, Köln 1992, pg.167, ISBN 3-7701-0976-7.
Walter Scheidig: Franz Horny, Berlin, Henschelverlag, 1954.
External links
Literature by and about Franz Horny in the German National Library catalogue
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