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Sebastian Wegmayr

Sebastian Wegmayr (1776 - 1857) was active/lived in Austria.  Sebastian Wegmayr is known for Painting.

Sebastian Wegmayr (1776-1857)

He was one of the most famous Viennese flower painters of the first half of the 19th century.  He studied flower painting at the Vienna Academy from 1797 to 1805.  From 1807 to 1811 he was the assistant to his teacher, Johann Baptist Dreschler, at the Academy's flower painting class.  Wegmayr succeeded Dreschler as professor of flower painting in 1812, a position he held until 1850.  Gerbert and Marianne Frodl, in their book Die Blumenmalerei in Wien (Vienna 2010, p.72), write of Wegmayr: "The representative bouquet...dominated his creative works almost exclusively for decades.   He persevered in this respect, yet on the other hand, he developed a painterly signature, which frequently set him clearly apart from any other painters of his subject, such as Josef Nigg or Franz Xavier Petter, and which, in a certain sense, one could call expressive.  Wegmayr's compositions consist of large   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1546 characters.]  Artist bio

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