The Painter Joseph Anton Koch

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This breathtaking work of art was made by the Austrian painter Joseph Anton Koch (1768 - 1839) who was known for his numerous landscape paintings like this work in which he depicts the Schmadribachfall which is located in Switzerland. He was inspired by this painting during one of his stays in Switzerland in which he dealt with the landscape and was especially inspired by the Alps and he developed an interest in art early on, but he was first motivated to do an apprenticeship in the religious sector, but he felt more attracted to art and already during this time he was artistically active and was praised for his works and even met a baron in Augsburg who decided to promote his work and later he had the opportunity to work for a sculptor and later he went to Germany where he began studying in the field of art in Stuttgart. He was born as one of many children of a merchant family in Tyrol and already in his early childhood he had to struggle with losses when he had lost some of his siblings and it is assumed that Koch was already strongly influenced by nature before his art studies and grew up very true to nature and spent a lot of time in forests or other places of nature. In Stuttgart his art was very admired and he got a lot of praise but it was not quite the right thing for him and he preferred to be able to work more freely so he decided to leave the academy and go on trips and first he visited Strasbourg and later Switzerland and he was very revolutionary during this time and was influenced by the French Revolution. For a few years he was attracted to Italy where he visited different places and later settled in Rome where he joined a group of artists and he himself was known for always seeking contact with other artists during his life and moving in circles in which he met many well-known artists of his time. For some time Koch also lived in Vienna and later decided to go back to Rome where he spent the rest of his life and during all his travels, he got to know a lot about the different cultures and integrated these scenarios into his works and in nature he made numerous sketches for his works and felt particularly strongly attracted to the Alps and it can be said that he had a great influence on the art epoch of his time.

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