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Karl Heffner (1849 – 1925).

Karl Heffner was born in Mürzberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1849. He studied music in Munich. When he was in his twenties he worked for an English art dealer, Tom Wallis, who managed the French Gallery in London, and became interested in art.

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Karl Heffner (1849 – 1925).

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Heffner returned to Munich and studied painting under Adolf Stademann and Adolf Heinrich Lier. Influences include the seventeenth century Dutch masters (primarily from Stademann) as well as the Barbizon school of realism in detail. The Barbizon school also gave rise to impressionism.

He exhibited in Munich and in Vienna. He was made an honorary member of the Academy of Munich and in 1886 was given the title of professor by thge Prince Regent.

Heffner was noted for painting English landscapes. In 1885 one of his paintings, exhibited at the French Gallery, was purchased by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. Edward commissioned another painting from Heffner; the artist chose to paint Windsor Castle.

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