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| Joseph Anton Koch |
| 1768-1839 |
| European Artist |
| Koch was from Tyrol, Germany, but spent most of his life in Rome where he became a pivotal figure in 19th-century German landscape painting. He combined French classical traditions with an emerging Romanticism. Constructing a "heroic" landscape in which human figures are presented in nature as an expression of eternal majesty and grandeur, Koch transformed natural elements into idyllic, often stage-like spatial structures. A radiant, eternally blue sky symbolizes the timeless, universal validity of nature, God's creation. |
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