PETER HESS (179211871)afterwards von Hesswas born at Dusseldorf and accompanied his younger brother Heinrich Maria to Munich in 18o6. Being of an age to receive vivid impressions, he felt the stirring impulses of the time and became a painter of skirmi

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PETER HESS (179211871)afterwards von Hesswas born at Dusseldorf and accompanied his younger brother Heinrich Maria to Munich in 18o6. Being of an age to receive vivid impressions, he felt the stirring impulses of the time and became a painter of skirmi shes and battles. In 18131815 he was allowed to join the staff of General Wrede, who commanded the Bavarians in the military operations which led to the

abdication

ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one)

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

; and there he gained novel experiences of war and a

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

for extensive travel. In the course of years he successively visited Austria, Switzerland and Italy. On Prince Otho's election to the Greek throne King Louis sent Peter Hess to Athens to gather materials for pictures of the war of liberation. The sketches which he then made were placed,

forty

FORTY

in number, in the Pinakothek, after being copied in wax on a large scale (and little to the edification of German feeling) by Nilsen, in the northern arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich. King Otho's entrance into

Nauplia

NAUPLIA

was the subject of a large and crowded canvas now in the Pinakothek, which Hess executed in person. From these, and from battlepieces on a scale of

great

GREAT

size in the Royal Palace, as well as from military episodes executed for the czar Nicholas, and the battle of Waterloo now in the Munich Gallery, we gather that Hess was a clever painter of horses. His conception of subject was lifelike, and his drawing invariably correct, but his style is not so congenial to modern

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

as that of the painters of

touch

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

. He finished almost too carefully with thin medium and pointed tools; and on that account he lacked to a certain extent the boldness of

Horace

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Vernet, to whom he was not unaptly compared. He died suddenly, full of honours, at Munich, in April 1871. Several of his genre pictures, horse hunts, and brigand scenes may be found in the gallery of Munich.

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