Janson, H.W. 19th-Century Sculpture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985
Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Born: Heilbronn, 8 December 1751
Died: Vienna, 5 November 1818
Nationality: German
Died: Vienna, 5 November 1818
Nationality: German
Studies:
drawing lessons from Nicolas Guibal at Hohe Karlsschule (1764, Stuttgart); school of Adam Friedrich Oeser (1771, Leipzig)
Career:
1770s – famous for portrait miniatures on ivory
1774 – Sir Robert Murray Keith (British Ambassador) brings Füger to the Austrian court
1776 –travel scholarship to Italy, arrives in Rome and meets Jacques-Louis David, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Angelica Kauffmann
1783 – returns to Vienna; vice-director of Academy of Fine Arts
1795 – appointed director of Academy and Court Painter
1798 – eye ailment forces Füger to stop painting miniatures, focuses on large-scale works
1806 –director of the Viennese imperial gallery
Travels
Vienna (1774, 1783-1818), Rome (1776-83)
Important Artworks:
School of Athens, before 1783 (Palazzo Reale, Caserta)
Death of Germanicus, 1815 (Belvedere Museum, Vienna)
Execution of a Vestel, c. 1800 (Hermitage, St Petersburg)
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