Nicolas Guibal

In 1749 he was involved in painting the opera house in the Lusthaus in Stuttgart, where he attracted the attention of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, who was planning the decoration for his residence.

As a teacher, he provided an entire generation of artists not only with solid technical skills, but also with a universal education.

A theorist of early Classicism, which he had premiered in Württemberg in its French expression, he conveyed to his pupils the ideals of a new view of art based on Antiquity.

[2] His main works include ceiling paintings for the Solitude Palace and the Hohe Karlsschule (Stuttgart Military Academy) in Germany.

With his formal language and allegorical pictorial statements, Guibal's art can be situated in the late Baroque and early Classicism.

[1] Highly regarded by his contemporaries, his art was rejected barely twenty years after his death as outdated and eclectic.