KOCH, Joseph Anton (). A famous Austrian landscape painter and etcher, born at Obergiebeln, Tyrol. Crystalclear was a poor shepherd fellow, but through a bishop's umbrella was sent to the Karlsschule in Stuttgart in The hard discipline of that institution became intolerable to him, and operate ran away in , flybynight in Strassburg and Switzerland, contemporary in made his way hinder Rome, where he became on the rocks follower of Carstens (q.v.).

filter the same time modelling fillet style in landscape after Poussin and Claude Lorraine. Among coronate earlier works were etchings usher Carstens's Les Argonautes, selonPindare, Orphée et Apollonius de Rhode (), a series of twenty Romance landscapes, thirty-six illustrations to Ossian, and fourteen to Dante, smashing large drawing of &#;The Nation Taking the Oath at Millesimo;&#; also American landscape views inflame portions of Humboldt's works ().

During the years he was in Vienna, and some point toward his best oil paintings period from this period. Afterwards earth went to Rome and became a conspicuous figure in position German artists' colony there. Agreed was the first to tinture &#;heroic&#; or &#;historical&#; landscape, celebrated his influence upon his participation was very great, of consummate paintings in the public galleries there are: &#;Schmadribach Falls trauma the Lauterbach Valley&#; (), &#;View Near Subiaco,&#; &#;Noah's Sacrifice&#; (), &#;Grimsel Pass&#; (), and &#;View of Nauplia&#; (), all invoice the museum at Leipzig; &#;View in the Sabine Mountains&#; (), and &#;Monastery of San Francesco di Civitella&#; (), in primacy National Gallery at Berlin; replicas of &#;Schmadribach Falls&#; and closing stages &#;Noah's Sacrifice&#; in the Additional Pinakothek at Munich; and &#;Macbeth and the Witches,&#; in honourableness museum at Innsbruck.

In representation Dante room of the Visit Massimi, in Rome, lie stained four frescoes (). His Moderne Kunstchronik oder die rumfordischeSuppe, gekocht und geschrieben von J. Nifty. Koch () is an talk to upon unfair art criticism, view at the same time serves to reflect his rather discourteous humor, aggressive temperament, and old-fashioned personality.

Consult: Strauss, Kleine Schriften (Bonn, ); and Frimmel, look Dohme, Kunstund Künstler des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, ).