Heinrich Friedrich Füger
Theatrical German Neoclassical portraitist
Heinrich Friedrich Füger was a German classicist portrait and historical painter. Füger was a pupil of Nicolas Guibal in Stuttgart and of Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig. Afterward he traveled and spent some time in Rome and Naples, where he painted frescoes in the Palazzo Caserta. On his return to Vienna he was appointed court painter, professor and vice director of the Academy, and in 1806 director of the Belvedere Gallery. Among his historical paintings are: The Farewell of Coriolanus (Czernin Gallery, Vienna), Allegory on the Peace of Vienna (1801), The Death of Germanicus (1789), The Assassination of Caesar, and Bathsheba (Budapest Gallery). Among his portraits are those of the Emperor Joseph II, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Wilhelmine of Württemberg, Queen Caroline of Naples, and Horatio Nelson, who sat for him in Vienna in 1800 (National Portrait Gallery, London). He painted in the classic style of Louis David and Anton Raphael Mengs and was inclined to be theatrical. Füger was also a teacher; among his pupils was Gustav Philipp Zwinger, and Franciszek Ksawery Lampi.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Adam Friedrich Oeser Master
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck Student
- Johann Nepomuk Höchle Student
- Johann Peter Krafft Student
- Josef Abel Student
- Joseph Karl Stieler Student
- Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld Student
- Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola Student
- Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld Student
- Moritz Michael Daffinger Student
- Rudolph Suhrlandt Student
Fellow student
Influenced by
- Louis David Source
- Anton Raphael Mengs Source
Influenced
Artworks by this artist (51 total)
- The court opera singer Theresia Saal as ‘Eva’ in Joseph Haydn’s ‘Creation’ 1802
- Leopold Pölt von Pöltenberg 1810
- Mythological scene
- Two Warriors in Classical Costume Bending over Two Figures mid-18th-early 19th century
- Portrait of a lady 2
- Brustbild eines bärtigen Mannes 1810-1818
- Dichter trinken am Kastalischen Quell das Wasser der Wahrhei
- Venedig und Dalmatien huldigen Kaiser Franz II.(I.) als Friedensbringer 1797
- Saint Catherine arguing against pagan philosophers before Emperor Maxentius
- Portrait of a lady
- Herrenporträt
- Man Embracing Woman with Child in Her Arms mid-18th-early 19th century
- John in the desert 1814
- Der Sündenfall, am Baum der Erkenntnis kauert ein Dämon
- The penitent Magdalena 1810
- The actress Josefa Hortensia Füger, the artist’s wife 1797
- Erzherzog Ferdinand als Kind 1804
- Studienblatt mit einer Madonna mit dem Kind und dem Johannesknaben, dazu ein bärtiger Mann mit Mütze
- Josepha Hortensia Füger mit ihren Kindern als Medea ca. 1793
- Antiochus und Stratonice und der Arzt Erasistratos 1789-1790