Bisanz, Rudolf M. “The Birth of a Myth: Tischbein’s Goethe in the Roman Campagna,” Monatshefte, vol. 80, no. 2 (Summer 1988): 187-99
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
Born: Haina, Hesse (near Kassel), 1751
Died: Eutin, Holstein, 1829
Nationality: German
Died: Eutin, Holstein, 1829
Nationality: German
Background:
family of painters
Studies:
with uncle, portrait painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein
Career:
1772-77 – portrait painter in Berlin
1779-89 – history and portrait painter in Rome
1789-99 – Naples Academy of Art (director)
1791-95 – supervised engraving of antiquities collection of Sir William Hamilton
1808-29 – Court Painter in Oldenburg
Travels
The Netherlands (1771), Munich (1778), Rome (1779-99)
Commissions from:
Sir William Hamilton
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