Hubert Maurer (10 June 1738, Bonn – 10 December 1818, Vienna) was a German painter, graphic artist and art professor.
He began as a student of the Bavarian court painter, Johann Georg Winter (1707-1770). He continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where one of his instructors, the rationally unstable sculptor, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, apparently tried to murder him in a fit of paranoia.[citation needed]
From 1772 to 1776, he was one of the first outfit of German painters to receive a allowance that enabled them to testing in Rome (the Deutschrömer). There, he was practiced to exploit with Anton Raphael Mengs. From 1785, he was a councilor and Professor at the Vienna Academy’s elementary drawing school; a incline he would maintain until 1817. He in addition to produced teaching materials, such as studies of the Old Masters of the Italian Renaissance, which marked the start of Classicism at the Academy.
His numerous competently known students include Karl Agricola, Johann Scheffer von Leonhardshoff, Moritz Michael Daffinger, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Karl Ruß, Wilhelm August Rieder, Kilian Ponheimer, Peter Fendi, Eustație Altini, Johann Baptist von Lampi, Friedrich von Amerling and Johann Michael Sattler, who would forward-looking become Maurer’s biographer. Sattler then married his promote daughter, Anna Maria Kittenberger, in 1816.
A street in Bonn has been named after him.
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