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SCHÖNBERGER, Lorenz Adolf - b. 1768 Bad Vöslau, d. 1846 Mainz - WGA

SCHÖNBERGER, Lorenz Adolf

(b. 1768 Bad Vöslau, d. 1846 Mainz)

Lorenz Adolf Schönberger (also Schoenberger) was an Austrian landscape painter working in the style of Claude Lorrain. After his study at the Vienna Art Academy with Johann Christian Brand, he travelled in Central Europe, lived and worked in Paris (1804), in Frankfurt am Main (1810), in Rome (1817-25), in Holland (1826) and in England (1840). His paintings are exhibited in the Belvedere Gallery, Vienna and in the city museums of Braunschweig, Darmstadt, and Speyer.

Landscape with Gessner's Tomb

Salomon Gessner (1730-1788) was a Swiss poet, whose “Idylls” came out in 1756, with a French edition appearing 1762. This pastoral poetry enjoyed sensational international success. Gessner described tombs set on charming, gentle landscapes. The subject matter of Sch�nberger’s painting, a prize-winning piece in 1789, was the commemoration of the celebrated “painting poet” and idyllist who captured his scenes in both word and image. This painting is a blend of a Gessner idyll with a Rococo-style landscape which still looks to the French artist Jean Pillement as its spiritual father.

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