Heinrich Funk
Illustration — Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol by Heinrich Funk Heinrich Funk (1807–1877) was a German landscape painter.
Also recorded as Carl Heinrich Lorenz Funk · heinrich funk · heinr. funk
Heinrich Funk
Heinrich Funk (Herford, Germany, 1807 - Stuttgart, 1877) · Own work, photo by Szilas in the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent · Public domain
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- Heinrich Funk was born on 12 December 1807. · Herford.
- Died
- Heinrich Funk died on 22 November 1877. · Stuttgart.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupation
- painter · university teacher · draftsperson · artist
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Landscape at Dusk in Tyrol by Heinrich Funk Heinrich Funk (1807–1877) was a German landscape painter.
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The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Work by Heinrich Funk is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Führermuseum, Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History and Art Museum Riga Bourse.
Funk was born in Herford, Westphalia. He was a pupil of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer at the Düsseldorf Academy. In 1836 he settled in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1854 to 1876 was professor at the Royal School of Art in Stuttgart.
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Funk was gifted with keen observation, a fine sense of beauty of form and line, and his pictures are notable for perfect drawing, minute execution, and poetic conception, often combined with splendid light effects. As well as his paintings, he also left more than five hundred charcoal and pencil drawings of sterling quality. Among those in public galleries at the turn of the 20th century were: • Castle Ruin in the Gloaming (1834), National Gallery, Berlin • Lower Inn Valley (1846), and Ruin by the Lake(1852), Städel Institute, Frankfort • The Kaisergebirge in the Inn Valley, and Stormy Weather in the Eifel, Stuttgart Museum
Landschap bij valavond in Tirol - Heinrich Funk - Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent
Heinrich Funk
Landschap bij valavond in Tirol - Heinrich Funk - Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent
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Heinrich Funk was born at Herford.
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Heinrich Funk died at Stuttgart.
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