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Heinrich Friedrich Füger worked in Vienna as a portraitist, miniaturist and history painter. He directed the Vienna Academy from 1795 and then the imperial picture gallery from 1806 until his death in 1818. A drawn portrait depicting his son, made around 1796 with pen and brown ink, survives in the Albertina and records a more intimate, family subject.
Mythological themes form another part of his work. The Creation of Man by Prometheus, dated 1790 in the Princely Collections of Liechtenstein, is an oil painting on canvas over two metres high. Kassel’s Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind, painted in 1817, shows the god holding a torch beside a still lifeless human figure, represented in grey and fashioned from clay.
This profile brings together identity references for Heinrich Füger and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Aquarell und Gummiarabikum auf Elfenbein
Catalogue period : 2026-03-11
Published result : 15243 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 12000–16000
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Oil on canvas
Apotheose Kaiser Josefs II.
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2021-06-05
Published result : 27500 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 24000
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Gouache on ivory
Bildnis des François de Le Febvre
Gouache auf Elfenbein
Catalogue period : 2015-06-20
Published result : 4134 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000–4000
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