Johann Nepomuk della Croce

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Selfportrait from 1762
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with his sister Maria Anna and father Leopold, on the wall a portrait of his dead mother Anna Maria, c. 1780

Johann Nepomuk della Croce[needs IPA] (7 August 1736 – 4 March 1819) was an Austrian painter, known in Italy as Giovanni Nepomuceno Della Croce (Pressano di Lavis). He was active in both Germany and Trentino in a late-Baroque style, depicting portraits and religious subjects.

Life and career[]

Johann Nepomuk della Croce was born at Pressano, in Tyrol, in 1736. He studied under Lorenzoni, an Italian artist and after travelling in Italy, Germany, Hungary, and France, he settled at Burghausen.

 [de] estimated that della Croce painted 5000 portraits and 200 historical pictures[citation needed]. There are many altar-pieces painted by him in the churches of Bavaria. He painted a portrait of the Mozart family in Salzburg. He painted a canvas of the Battle of Lavis between the Austrian-Tyrolean troops and the French at the bridge of San Lazzaro on September 5, 1796.[1] His son Clemente Della Croce (1783-1823) was also a painter.[2]

He died in 1819. His son, Clemens de La Croce, who was also a painter, was born at Burghausen in 1783 and died in 1823[citation needed].

References[]

  1. ^ Article on purchase of paintings by Giovanni Nepomuceno.
  2. ^ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 655.

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