Karl Adam Heinisch (23 March 1847 – 29 December 1923) was a German

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He is known for his landscape paintings. Karl Heinisch was born in Neustadt (now

Prudnik Prudnik (, , , ) is a town in southern Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship near the border with the Czech Republic. It is the administrative seat of Prudnik County and Gmina Prudnik. Its population numbers 21,368 inhabitant ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

). On 4 May 1870 he started going to Academy of Fine Arts in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

. He died in Munich. Sources disagree on his death date.

Benezit Dictionary of Artists The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers create ...

list is as "1910 or 1923", and RKD lists 29 December 1923 as a possible death date.

Gallery

File:Karl Heinisch, Königsee Malerwinkel.jpg,

Königssee The Königssee () is a natural lake in the southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park. Description Situated within the Bercht ...

File:Karl Heinisch Heuernte 1886.jpg File:Karl Heinisch Karlstor in München 1900.jpg File:Karl Heinsch Bei Bernried am Starnberger See 1890.jpg File:Karl Adam Heinisch, Eibsee.jpg

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* 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists People from Prudnik Academy of Fine Arts, Munich 1847 births 1923 deaths 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists {{germany-painter-stub