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HOECHLE, Johann Nepomuk - b. 1790 München, d. 1835 Wien - WGA

HOECHLE, Johann Nepomuk

(b. 1790 München, d. 1835 Wien)

German painter of battle scenes and genre painter, son of Johann Baptist Hoechle. He studied under Wilhelm von Kobell in Munich, then in 1800 went to Vienna, where he studied under Michael Wutky and Friedrich Heinrich Füger at the Vienna Academy, then spent many years in Paris at the studio of Ignace Duvivier, a painter of battle scenes. He returned to Vienna and in 1833 became his father’s successor as court painter and Kammermaler.

His works consist of paintings of war and peasant scenes, and paintings of events in Emperor Franz’s life.

Beethoven's Room
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Beethoven's Room

This drawing shows Beethoven’s study in the Schwarzspanierhaus - his final residence. Hoechle’s “portrait” of the room was made three days after the composer’s death. The idea was to preserve, in visual form at least, the way Beethoven’s last dwelling place had looked. In the drawing we can see one of the several versions of Beethoven’s bust (all plaster casts) placed on the right window ledge, made by the young sculptor Anton Dietrich (1796-1872). No marble copy was ever realized of the plaster casts.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 6 minutes):

Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Gesch�pfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus), overture op. 43

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