Artist
Adolf von Heydeck
German, 1787–1856
Adolf von Heydeck was a German Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Adolf von Heydeck was born in Dessau.
Gustav Adolf (Adolph) Heideck, from 1836 von Heideck was a German painter. A classmate of Friedrich and Ferdinand Olivier in Dessau, he studied at the Hauptschule there with Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. Apart from this he is not known to have any formal training, and is referred to in documentation as an "Autodidakt" and "Dilettant", or amateur, in painting and etching. From 1813 to 1820 he was in Rome, and he returned there in 1837. He also traveled to Terni and to Naples, and is known to have been in Olevano in 1820.
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