The Quiet Observer of the Bavarian Landscape Simon Warnberger began his training under Joseph Georg Winter, learning the precise mechanics of drawing and etching. His hands learned the weight of the tool before he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich to study painting. By 1806, he had traveled to Italy, returning with sketches that he would later translate into oil on canvas. His eye for the natural world was noted by King Maximilian I of Bavaria, who appointed him a royal court painter in 1810. He was a man who moved through the landscape, capturing the way light settles on a mountai…