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HEINRICH MARIA See also:HESS (1798–1863)—von Hess, after he received a patent of See also:personal See also:nobility—was See also:born at See also:Dusseldorf and brought up to the profession of See also:art by his See also:father, the engraver Karl See also:Ernst Christoph Hess (1755–1828) . Karl Hess had already acquired a name when in 18o6 the elector of See also:Bavaria, having been raised to a kingship by See also:Napoleon, transferred the Dusseldorf See also:academy and See also:gallery to See also:Munich. Karl Hess accompanied the academy to its new See also:home, and there continued the See also:education of his See also:children. In See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Heinrich Hess became sufficiently See also:master of his art to attract the See also:attention of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Maximilian. He was sent with a See also:stipend to See also:Rome, where a copy which he made of See also:Raphael's See also:Parnassus, and the study of See also:great examples of monumental See also:design, probably caused him to become a painter of ecclesiastical subjects on a large See also:scale. In 1828 he was made See also:professor of See also:painting and director of all the art collections 'at Munich. See also:lie decorated the Aukirche, the See also:Glyptothek and the Allerhellige ncapelle at Munich with frescoes; and his cartoons were seleclted for See also:glass windows in the cathedrals of See also:Cologne and See also:Regensburg. Then came the great See also:cycle of frescoes in the See also:basilica of St See also:Boniface at Munich, and the monumental picture of the Virgin and See also:Child enthroned between the four doctors, and receiving the See also:homage of the four patrons of the Munich churches (now- in the Pinakothek). His last See also:work, the " See also:Lord's Supper," 'was found unfinished in his atelier after his See also:death in 1863. Before.; testing his strength as a composer Heinrich Hess
tried genre, an example of which is the Pilgrims entering Rome, now in the Munich gallery. He also executed portraits, and twice had sittings from See also:Thorwaldsen (Pinakothek and See also:Schack collections). But his fame rests on the frescoes representing scenes from the Old and New Testaments in the Allerheiligencapelle, and the episodes from the See also:life of St Boniface and other See also:German apostles in the basilica of Munich. Here he holds See also:rank second to none but See also:Overbeck in monumental painting, being always true to nature though mindful of the traditions of See also:Christian art, See also:earnest and See also:simple in feeling, yet lifelike and powerful in expression. Through him and his pupils the sentiment of religious art was preserved and extended in the Munich school.
End of Article: HEINRICH MARIA HESS (1798–1863)—von Hess, after he received a patent of personal nobility—was born at Dusseldorf and brought up to the profession of art by his father, the engraver Karl Ernst Christoph Hess (1755–1828)
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