Heinrich Mucke

April 9, 1806 (age 84)

Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

His paintings are hung today in Germany"s leading museums, including the National Gallery Berlin, Breslau Museum and the Brunn Museum. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He received formal training in art at both the Berlin Academy and the Düsseldorf Academy. Mücke worked under the well established painter Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow. Travel was an important element of life to Mücke, Italy being his first extended foreign sojourn over the winter of 1834-1835. Later, in the year 1950 he visited England, while he vacationed in Switzerland many times. Biblical topics were the first for which Mücke was well known. Further liturgical oils of the late 1840s,early 1850s and undated works are: Coronation of the Virgin (1847). Saint Adelbert (1851). Cycle of Life of Saint Meinrad. Good Shepherd; and Christ Crucified. Heinrich Mücke also attended to other subject matter, especially while in his early forties. He enjoyed portraying famous historic people in foreign lands, such as Dante in Verona (1846) and Cleopatra Dying (1873). The well known Male Portrait (1861) hangs in the Düsseldorf Museum. Not content with liturgical art on canvas, Mücke relished the creation of expansive frescoes in some of the superb old buildings in Germany. The earliest well known example is a series of many large images produced over a nine-year period at Castle Heltorf near Düsseldorf: Scenes from life of Barbarossa (1829–1938). In general Mücke"s frescoes comprised early compositions, although these works were clearly interleaved in time with his liturgical oil paintings. Karl Mücke was born in 1847 and surely studied under his father. Karl became a distinguished painter in his own right, although not as renowned as his father. Karl died on 27 May 1923. Breslau Museum Brunn Museum Chemnitz Museum Düsseldorf Museum National Gallery Berlin.

Heinrich Mucke

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Heinrich Mücke was born in Breslau, then in Prussia and today in Poland, in the spring of 1806.

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From earliest predilections, he chose historical religious subjects, especially those containing dramatic or exalted themes.

Career

His paintings are hung today in Germany"s leading museums, including the National Gallery Berlin, Breslau Museum and the Brunn Museum. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He received formal training in art at both the Berlin Academy and the Düsseldorf Academy.

Mücke worked under the well established painter Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow.

Travel was an important element of life to Mücke, Italy being his first extended foreign sojourn over the winter of 1834-1835. Later, in the year 1950 he visited England, while he vacationed in Switzerland many times.

Biblical topics were the first for which Mücke was well known. Further liturgical oils of the late 1840s,early 1850s and undated works are: Coronation of the Virgin (1847).

Saint Adelbert (1851).

Cycle of Life of Saint Meinrad. Good Shepherd; and Christ Crucified. Heinrich Mücke also attended to other subject matter, especially while in his early forties.

He enjoyed portraying famous historic people in foreign lands, such as Dante in Verona (1846) and Cleopatra Dying (1873).

The well known Male Portrait (1861) hangs in the Düsseldorf Museum. Not content with liturgical art on canvas, Mücke relished the creation of expansive frescoes in some of the superb old buildings in Germany.

The earliest well known example is a series of many large images produced over a nine-year period at Castle Heltorf near Düsseldorf: Scenes from life of Barbarossa (1829–1938). In general Mücke"s frescoes comprised early compositions, although these works were clearly interleaved in time with his liturgical oil paintings.

Karl Mücke was born in 1847 and surely studied under his father.

Karl became a distinguished painter in his own right, although not as renowned as his father. Karl died on 27 May 1923. Breslau Museum

Brunn Museum

Chemnitz Museum

Düsseldorf Museum

National Gallery Berlin.

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Heinrich Mücke was a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy and received the Portuguese Medal for Art and Sciences as well as the Breslau Meda

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the Portuguese Medal; the Breslau Medal