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Johann Heinrich Füssli
Zürich, Old Swiss Confederacy
Archival Overview
Swiss-born British Romantic painter and professor whose chilling masterpiece 'The Nightmare' (1781) introduced gothic terror, eroticism, and the irrational subconscious into Western art.
Biographical Record
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825 CE) was an ordained Zwinglian minister who fled Switzerland after exposing a corrupt magistrate, studying art in Rome under the encouragement of Joshua Reynolds.
Settling in London as Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, his sensational painting The Nightmare—depicting an incubus crouching on a sleeping woman's chest—heralded the Romantic fascination with dreams.
Key Life Milestones
The Nightmare Exhibited
Exhibited his shocking painting at the Royal Academy, becoming an immediate sensation and sold as engravings across Europe.
The Milton Gallery
Completed 47 monumental canvases illustrating John Milton's Paradise Lost, celebrating Satan as a Romantic tragic rebel.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialLondon, United Kingdom