Franz Horny

Franz Theobald Horny (23 November 1798, Weimar – 23 June 1824, Olevano Romano) was a German painter in the Romantic style.

He attended the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, where he studied under Johann Heinrich Meyer, Goethe's advisor on artistic matters.

A decisive turn in his career came when he met the art historian, collector and patron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, who took him along on a trip to Rome[1] and helped to place him as a student in the workshop of Joseph Anton Koch.

As his illness worsened, he went back to Italy in hopes that the climate would be more amenable, and settled in Olevano in 1822.

In 1998/99, to celebrate Horny's 200th birthday, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in cooperation with the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, presented "Ein Romantiker im Lichte Italiens", the first full exhibition devoted to Horny's work.