A painter and draughtsman between Hof and Rome
In the footsteps of Johann Christian Reinhart (1761-1847)
Johann Christian Reinhart was born in Hof in 1761. After leaving school, he received his artistic training in Leipzig and Dresden. As a friend of Friedrich Schiller, he was close to the Sturm und Drang movement in his youth, although he worked at the court of George I of Saxe-Meiningen from 1786. Reinhart went to Rome in 1789 and remained in the Eternal City until his death in 1847. He developed into one of the most respected artists in the German colony and became a member of the academies in Berlin and Munich. Ludwig I appointed him Royal Bavarian Court Painter in 1839.
Reinhart's subject was the landscape, which he created in the media of drawing, etching and painting. He used various forms of landscape art to express his artistic ideas. The range of his landscape forms in combination with his outstanding artistic quality makes Reinhart one of the most important landscape artists of the period around 1800.
Reinhart did not leave many traces in Hof, but you will have gotten to know him and his surroundings a little better after this tour.
Date 2024: not yet known
Meeting point is Maxplatz 2, 95028 Hof
Price: €6.00
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Registration is required at the Tourist Information Office on 09281/815-7777 or touristinfo(at)stadt-hof.de.
