Holst, Christian von. Joseph Anton Koch, 1768-1839, Ansichten der Natur. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989 (in German)
Joseph Anton Koch
Born: Obergiblen, Tyrol, 27 July 1768
Died: Rome, 12 January 1839
Nationality: Austrian
Died: Rome, 12 January 1839
Nationality: Austrian
Studies:
with Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch and Adolf Friedrich Herper at Hohe Karlsschule, Stuttgart (1785-91)
Career:
1794 – Dr George Nott funds study in Italy
1795 –affiliates with Bertil Thorvaldsen and German/Scandinavian artists
1810 – commissioned to engrave three plates for August von Humboldt’s Atlas pittoresque (1810)
1825 – works with Nazarene painters on fresco cycle in Villa Massimo, Rome
1834 – publishes Moderne Künstchronik (Modern Art Chronicle, Karlsruhe)
Travels
frequent sketching trips to Switzerland and Alps (1791-94); Rome (1795-1812, 1815-39); Vienna (1812-15)
Important Artworks:
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, 1805 (Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe)
Schamadribach Waterfall, 1805-11 (Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig)