Johann Moritz Rugendas

Visual Artist

1802 – 1858

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Who was Johann Moritz Rugendas?

Johann Moritz Rugendas, was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas, in the first half of the 19th century. Rugendas is also the subject of the 2000 novel by César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.

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Born
Mar 29, 1802
Augsburg
Nationality
  • Germany
Education
  • Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Died
May 29, 1858
Weilheim an der Teck

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on July 23, 2013

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