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Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller

Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller (1793 - 1865) was active/lived in Austria.  Ferdinand Waldmuller is known for Figure, portrait and genre painting.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller (Vienna, 1793 - Hinterbrühl, 1865) was an important Austrian portrait, genre and landscape painter of the Biedermeier period, 1814-1848. Waldmüller was particularly admired for his landscape, which exemplify his belief that art should be based on a close study of nature.  Being an advocate of natural observation and plein-air painting, as well as a critic of academic painting, Waldmüller is regarded as being far ahead of his time.

Ferdinand Waldmuller began his art studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1807 under Hubert Maurer.  After leaving the Academy in 1811, Waldmüller studied portraiture in Presburg, Hungary, and then taught drawing to the children of Count Gyulay in Croatia.  In 1813 he returned to Vienna to study portraiture at the Academy.  He married the singer Katharina Weidner in 1814, and consequently worked as a scenery designer and portrait painter at his wife's various engagements in Baden, Bru   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5345 characters.]  Artist bio

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