Johann Konrad Horny (November 1764,

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– 7 November 1807,

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) was a German

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, and copper engraver.

Life and work

Until 1784, he was a landscape artist at the . After 1785, he lived in

where, in 1789, he became a teacher at the Princely Free Drawing School. In 1793, he accompanied

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back to his hometown, then known as the

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, to witness a siege there, maintained by the French Army. From 1794 to 1795, he painted some rooms in Goethe's home. In 1798, his son Franz was born, and became one of his students while still a young boy. He was also active as an art dealer. In 1801, when the government there made it easier to obtain concessions, he was awarded one to open his own art and book publishing business. He occasionally worked in collaboration with Georg Melchior Kraus. Much of his work involves ancient Italian landscapes, in the Classical style, which were his specialty as a porcelain painter. At the , one may see one of his etchings, depicting the city of

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.Susanne Müller-Wolff: ''Ein Landschaftsgarten im Ilmtal: Die Geschichte des Herzoglichen Parks in Weimar''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Horny, Konrad 1764 births 1807 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists 18th-century German engravers Porcelain painters Artists from Mainz 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists