Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein - Adolph von Heydeck

Gustav Adolf (Adolph) Heideck, from 1836 von Heideck (born

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, 25 April 1787 - died there 23 January 1856) was a German painter. A classmate of

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and

Ferdinand Olivier Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier (1785–1841) was a German painter associated with the Nazarene movement. Life Olivier was born in Dessau on 1 April 1785, to a family of Swiss-French descent. He began his artistic education in 1801 by taking d ...

in Dessau, he studied at the Hauptschule there with Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. Apart from this he is not known to have any formal training, and is referred to in documentation as an " Autodidakt" and "Dilettant", or amateur, in painting and

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. From 1813 to 1820 he was in

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, and he returned there in 1837. He also traveled to

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and to

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, and is known to have been in Olevano in 1820.

References

*Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce, and Jeremy Strick. ''In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting''. New Haven; Yale University Press, 1996. 19th-century German painters German male painters 1787 births 1856 deaths 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub