Anton Graff, whose father and brother were also active as artists, was an important portrait painter of the Biedermeier period based in Germany.
Born on November 18, 1736 in Winterthur.
Died on June 22, 1813 in Dresden.
After his initial artistic education in Switzerland, Anton Graff took up an apprenticeship with J. J. Haid and L. Schneider. At the Ansbach court, he developed his techniques in the genre of portraiture and became self-employed in Augsburg. In 1766, Anton Graff succeeds in securing himself the post of a Dresden court painter with his characteristic portraits. Soon his portraits earned him national success. A variety of trips through Germany and Switzerland undertaken to visit famous people wishing to have made a portrait of them can be proven. Due to the artist's preference of creating psychologically penetrated portraits representing individual properties, the viewers of today get a sensitive impression of important, also artistically active people, as for example Friedrich Schiller and Lessing. |
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Oil Paintings