Lot 15: Ideal Italian Landscape

Johann Samuel Hötzendorf Sulzbach 1694 - Wien 1742 , Ideal Italian Landscape, Oil/canvas, 64 x 96,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. Hözendorff, min. rest., relined., Austrian landscape a. history painter. H. probably began his artistical training in Munich; no later than 1720 he was in Rome. In 1723 he settled in Vienna as an established artist. He won the first prize of the Vienna academy in 1731. He also executed many commissions for the Göttweig monastery near Vienna.