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Anton Zwengauer

Anton Georg Zwengauer (1810 - 1884) was active/lived in Germany.  Anton Zwengauer is known for Landscape painting.

Anton Zwengauer (11 October 1810 – 13 June 1884) was a German painter of the Biedermeier period.

Zwengauer was born in Munich, Bavaria.  He studied at the Academy of Art in his home town under, among others, Peter von Cornelius.  Zwengauer found himself attracted to landscape painting, in which there was no formal training at the Academy, and at the age of 17 he therefore began to travel through the Bavarian and Austrian Alps, returning from each trip with large quantities of sketches and watercolours.  His artistic breakthrough came with his painting Sonnenuntergang im Dachauer Moos ("Sunset in the Dachauer Moos"), which immediately became well-known and much-discussed in the Munich art world.  His sunsets became so well known that all paintings with sunsets were referred to, half admiringly and half ironically, as "Zwengauers".

In 1835 Maximilian II, King of Bavaria, appointed him conservator of the picture gallery of Schloss S   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2181 characters.]  Artist bio

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