Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, Joseph Anton Koch, 1824

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Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, 1824, Oil on canvas, 42 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Joseph Anton Koch (Austrian, Obergibeln bei Elbigenalp 1768–1839 Rome), The classically-trained painter Joseph Anton Koch was a father-figure to many German-speaking artists who visited Rome in the early nineteenth century. He renewed the genre of heroic landscape painting, which had been established by the seventeenth-century French masters Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin

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