Anton GraffSwiss, 1736–1813Graf Detlev Karl von Einsiedel
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Where is “Graf Detlev Karl von Einsiedel” now? Collection: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Unknown.
Dresden, Germany
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
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In the catalog
Sources
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
- Image: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister — In Copyright
In the life of Anton Graff
The whole life1768
Meets Goethe in Dresden
In Dresden he meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Graff becomes the main portrait painter of German poets from the Enlightenment to early Romanticism, and many of them are also his friends.
1769
Meets the Leipzig publisher Philipp Erasmus Reich
Reich, a well-known Leipzig bookseller and publisher, becomes a good friend and engages him to portray his scholar friends.
16 October 1771
Marries Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer
On 16 October 1771 he marries Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer, called “Guste”, the daughter of Johann Georg Sulzer, whose portrait he painted in Berlin.
1772
Loses his first daughter in her birth year
His first daughter, Johanna Catharina Henrietta, dies in the same year she was born, 1772.
