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| Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein |
| 1751-1829 |
| European Artist |
| German classical painter and etcher, Tischbein was one of a family of painters and was the pupil of his uncles in Hamburg. He went to Holland in 1771 and began to work as a portrait painter, having a great success at the court in Berlin after 1777. He became dissatisfied with portraiture and went to Munich, where he studied Durer and the early German painters, going on to Italy in 1779. In 1783, he was in Rome for the second time and began to paint history pictures. He was a popular portrait painter of the German royalty. He also executed several portraits of Goethe Tischbein and worked for a time in Naples, making engravings from Greek vases. Many of his etchings are illustrations for the works of Homer. |
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