Peter von Hess
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Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (29 July 1792 – 4 April 1871) was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence.
Life
Peter von Hess initially received training from his father Carl Ernst Christoph Hess. He accompanied his younger brother Heinrich Maria to Munich in 1806, and enrolled at the Munich Academy at the age of sixteen. He also trained under Wilhelm von Kobell.
During the Napoleonic Wars, he was allowed to join the staff of General Wrede, who commanded the Bavarians in the military operations which led to the abdication of Napoleon. There he gained novel experiences of war and a taste for extensive travel. During this time, von Hess painted his first battle pieces.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". In 1818, he spent some time in Italy where he painted landscapes and various Italian scenes and travelled to Naples with Joseph Petzl and a group of other Bavarian artists.
In 1833, at King Ludwig I of Bavaria's request, he accompanied Otto of Greece to the newly formed Kingdom of Greece, where at Athens he gathered materials for pictures of the war of liberation. The sketches which he then made were placed, forty in number, in the Pinakothek, after being copied in wax on a large scale by Nilsen, in the northern arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". King Otho's entrance into Nauplia was the subject of a large and crowded canvas now in the Pinakothek, which Hess executed in person.
Evaluation
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He is buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.
Works
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Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Pruth
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Alexandros Mavrokordatos defends Missolonghi
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Sacred Band fighting at Dragatsani
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The hanging of Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople
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Botsaris dying in Karpenisi
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(First) Battle of Krasnoi
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The Entry of King Othon of Greece into Nauplia (1835)
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Crossing the Berezina River (1844)
References
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- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century German male artists
- German male painters
- 19th-century German war artists
- German war artists
- 1792 births
- 1871 deaths
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
- German philhellenes
- Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof