Joseph Mössmer

View of the Chateau of Prince Alexander Kurakin de Nadejdino, c. 1800

Joseph Mössmer (1780-1845) was an Austrian painter and instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Born in Vienna,[1] from 1796 he'd studied under Friedrich August Brand. Once teaching at the Academy he headed the landscape painting class for decades, encouraging outdoor painting, and exerted considerable influence without gaining much of a reputation for his own skill.[2]

At the Academy his notable students included Emanuel Stöckler,[3] August Heinrich,[4] Anton Altmann, and Friedrich Loos.

References

  1. ↑ Geschichte der neueren deutschen Kunst, Volume 2, by Athanasius Raczynski, Fried.Heinr. von der Hagen, page 627
  2. ↑ Viennese Watercolors of the Nineteenth Century, Walter Koschatzky, 1988, page 34
  3. ↑ Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, Volume 4, edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins, page 230
  4. ↑ Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780-1880, by Fritz Novotny, page 102
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