Johann Konrad Horny (November 1764,
Mainz - 7 November 1807,
Weimar) was a German
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
,
graphic artist
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...
, and
copper engraver.
Life and work
Until 1784, he was a landscape artist at the . After 1785, he lived in
Weimar where, in 1789, he became a teacher at the
Princely Free Drawing School. In 1793, he accompanied
Goethe back to his hometown, then known as the
Republic of Mainz, to witness a siege there, maintained by the French Army. From 1794 to 1795, he painted some rooms in Goethe's home. In 1798, his son
Franz was born, and became one of his students while still a young boy.
He was also active as an art dealer. In 1801, when the government there made it easier to obtain
concessions, he was awarded one to open his own art and book publishing business. He occasionally worked in collaboration with
Georg Melchior Kraus
Georg Melchior Kraus (26 July 1737, in Frankfurt am Main – 5 November 1806, in Weimar) was a German painter. He was a co-founder of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, together with Friedrich Justin Bertuch, in 1776.
Life
He was the ...
.
Much of his work involves ancient Italian landscapes, in the
Classical style, which were his specialty as a porcelain painter. At the , one may see one of his etchings, depicting the city of
Lipari.
Susanne Müller-Wolff: ''Ein Landschaftsgarten im Ilmtal: Die Geschichte des Herzoglichen Parks in Weimar''
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1764 births
1807 deaths
18th-century German painters
18th-century German male artists
German engravers
Porcelain painters
Artists from Mainz
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists