Carl Wilhelm von Heideck was a German painter, officer and graphic artist. Von Heideck was born in 1788 in Saaralben. As the son of the military major and amateur draughtsman Hartmann Heidegger, he soon began drawing lessons with Johann Heinrich Meyer, Johann Kaspar Huber and Konrad Gessner in Zurich. From 1808 onwards, he attended military school in Munich, which was followed by a military career as an artillery lieutenant and border commissioner that saw him deployed in several wars and campaigns. During this period, he exclusively created watercolours and gouaches. In 1815, he took lessons in landscape painting with Johann Christian von Mannlich, turning to oil painting from the following year onwards. In 1823, he...