Anton GraffSwiss, 1736–1813An der Stadtmauer in Rom
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Where is “An der Stadtmauer in Rom” now? Collection: Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Dresden. Unknown.
Dresden, Germany
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
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Sources
- Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden
- Image: Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden — In Copyright
In the life of Anton Graff
The whole lifeearly 1788
A Prussian minister calls him to the Berlin Academy
In early 1788 the Prussian minister Friedrich Anton von Heynitz makes him a very financially attractive offer to work at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.
20 June 1789
Appointed professor of portrait painting in Dresden
On 7 May 1789 Graff tells Count Camillo Marcolini, general director of the Dresden Art Academy, about the Berlin offer; Marcolini reacts straight away, and on 20 June Graff is appointed professor of portrait painting at the Dresden Academy.
1796
Copies Dresden Gallery paintings for the Hermitage
On the order of the Russian empress Catherine II he makes copies of a number of paintings from the Dresden Gallery for the Imperial Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
1801
Loses his son Georg
His second son, Georg, dies.
1803
Cataract surgery
He undergoes cataract surgery. In his last years he turns to landscape painting and develops a sparkling manner that anticipates Impressionism; his landscapes influence Philipp Otto Runge, Caspar David Friedrich and Friedrich Georg Weitsch.
