Carl Friedrich Heinzmann (2 December 1795,

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

- 9 July 1846,

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) was a German landscape and porcelain painter; also known as a

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German ...

Life and work

He received his initial art lessons from the

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

, . In 1814, he volunteered for military service. A year later, despite having been offered a promotion to officer in the French army, he decided to go to Munich to continue his studies, with the support of King

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. There, he worked with the landscape painter, Wilhelm von Kobell. His skills became so evident that, in 1822, he was able to find employment at the

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory The Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory (German: ''Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg'') is located at the ''Nördliches Schloßrondell'' (northern palace circle) in one of the ''Cavalier Houses'' in front of the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germa ...

, where his preferred decorations were happy and peaceful nature scenes. He spent as much time as possible in the Bavarian, Swiss and Tyrolean

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, gathering material for his paintings. In addition to his original compositions, he made copies of masterworks from the

Alte Pinakothek The Alte Pinakothek (, ''Old Pinakothek'') is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pin ...

, on plates and vases. His major works include a vase, decorated with images of the various units of the

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; which was a gift from Crown Prince

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to Sultan

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, and a plaque with views of Munich, given to King

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when he left Bavaria. He also made lithographs and numerous landscape oil paintings, many with military

staffage In painting, staffage () are the human and animal figures depicted in a scene, especially a landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often c ...

. In 1843, he paid an extended visit to Italy, collecting material and making sketches. Most of these were never made into completed works, as he died of pneumonia, shortly after returning to Munich in 1846.

Sources

Georg Kaspar Nagler Georg Kaspar Nagler (January 6, 1801 in Obersüßbach – January 20, 1866 in Munich) was a German art historian and art writer. Life and work Georg Kaspar Nagler, who came from a poor background studied from 1815 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium (Mun ...

: ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon'', Vol. 6, 1838, pg.68 * Atanazy Raczyński: ''Geschichte der neueren Kunst'', Vol.2, 1840, pg.457 *

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