Friedrich Horner
Born in 1800.
Died in 1864.
Friedrich Horner was a landscape painter whose activity extended mainly from 1822 to 1848. He lived in Naples and Rome for twenty-six years, where he developed his art. In 1848, political circumstances compelled him to return to Basel.
His work is distinguished by watercolours depicting landscapes and architecture of the South and the Orient, testifying to a particular sensitivity to these regions.
