Anton Graff

Painting, Visual Artist

1736 – 1813

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Who was Anton Graff?

Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weisse. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.

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Born
Nov 18, 1736
Winterthur
Also known as
  • Граф, Антон
Nationality
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
Profession
Lived in
  • Winterthur
Died
Jun 22, 1813
Dresden

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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