View From A Hill Over Nice And The Baie Des Anges By Johann B. Heinefetter (1815 - 1902)

This painting with a view from a hill on Nice and the Bay of Angels was executed by the good German painter classified Johann Baptist Heinefetter (1815 Mainz - 1902 Baden-Baden). Heinefetter was born to Jewish parents in Mainz. In Munich, Johann Baptist Heinefetter was a pupil of the battle painter Dietrich Monten. He was active as a genre, landscape and sometimes battle painter. He traveled to Italy, southern France, Corsica, Switzerland, Tyrol as well as Austria, Upper Bavaria, the Black Forest and the Rhine-Main region and settled in Baden-Baden . In 1842, he painted the frescoes in the Trinkhalle Baden-Baden with Jakob Götzenberger, created the painting Resurrection of Christ for the cemetery chapel and four large paintings on the ceiling of the conversation house. In 1847 he founded a gymnastics club in Baden-Baden, of which he later became an honorary member. In the 1850s, he accompanied Götzenberger to England. Here they worked together for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, who had them decorate Bridgewater House in London's St. James Park with images from the house's history and scenes from John Milton's Comus. He was professor of painting to Princesses Belosselski and Gagarin, as well as to the Duchess of Hamilton, Marie Amalie de Bade. Frederick I of Baden was also interested in Heinefetter's works and visited the artist's studio several times. He acquired several large landscapes and appointed Heinefetter court painter.

Literature: "General Artist´s Lexicon" by Thieme / Becker, Leipzig, 1999.
Inscription: signed and dated 1874 lower right.
Technique: oil on cardboard framed.
Dimensions: unframed 40 x 32 cm, framed 51.5 x 43.5 cm.
Condition: in very good condition.