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Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter. The Tyrolese painter was born in Elbigenalp. Early in his life he was tending cattle.
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Joseph Anton Koch (27 July 1768 – 12 January 1839) was an Austrian painter of Neoclassicism and later the German Romantic movement; he is perhaps the most significant neoclassical landscape painter.
Joseph Anton Koch’s fame as the most important painter of the German classical tradition rests on iconic images such as <i>Heroic Landscape with Rainbow</i> of 1824. He painted four versions between 1805 and 1824, culminating in this final one.
Having survived the Flood, Noah and his family offer a sacrifice to God, who has created a rainbow above the land emerging from the waters as a sign of the new Covenant between him and mankind. Koch lived for over forty years in Rome.
Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels in the Valley of Mambre Joseph Anton Koch • 1797
He etched the pages of Carstens' Les Argonautes, selon Pindar, Orphée et Apollonius de Rhode (Rome, 1799). After 1800, Koch developed as a landscape painter. In Rome, he espoused a new type of "heroic" landscape, revising the classical compositions of Poussin and Lorrain with a more rugged, mountainous scenery.
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In 1825, at the age of 57, Koch turned to fresco painting. His reputation as an illustrator of Dante inspired the Marchese Massimo to commission him to paint frescoes depicting scenes of hell and purgatory in the Cassino Massimo.
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