Franz von Lenbach, whose legacy consists of 4,000 works, was a highly sought-after German painter of the Munich Realism of the 19th century.
Born on December 13, 1836 in Schrobenhausen.
Died on May 06, 1904 in Munich.
Franz von Lenbach, who began as a naturalistic landscape painter, completed a training at the art school in Landshut and took two years of painting classes. In his early work, the artist, who enrolled for yet another study at the Munich Academy in 1857, created portraits and sketches of nature. After a stay in Rome, during which many naturalistic drawings were created, which later were transformed into paintings, Franz von Lenbach rose to a highly respected portrait artists of the Munich society. Eighty of his portraits, which are characterized above all by their very accurate representation of the people portrayed, show Lenbach's friend Prince Otto von Bismarck. |
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Oil Paintings