Discover miniaturist painter, painter, court painter Anton Graff

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This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Graaf, Anton
Graef, Anton
Graf, Antoine
Graf, Anton
Graff, Antoine
Grafft, Antoine
Grave, Anton
Dyck de Allemagne, van
Van Dijck de Allemagne

Monogram: AG

AG [in ligature]

Qualifications: miniaturist painter, painter, court painter

Nationality/school: Swiss, German

Born: Winterthur (Switzerland) 1736-11-18

Deceased: Dresden 1813-06-22

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18 hits in RKDimages as artist
10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
5 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Winterthur (Zwitserland)
Augsburg 1756 - 1757
Ansbach 1757 - 1759
Augsburg
Regensburg 1764 - 1765
Winterthur (Zwitserland) 1765
Dresden 1766 - 1813

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Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Angermann, David
Brückner, Friedrich August
Focke, Carl
Mähler, Joseph
Pfenninger, Heinrich
Quistorp, Gottfried
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Caffe, Daniel
Stagura, Albert

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), portrait

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Brun 1905-1917
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 14 (1921), p. 480ff
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 301, 304, 315, 344, 362
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 5, p. 155
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 119
Saur 1992- , vol. 60 (2008), p. 97

H. Marx, 'Von Louis de Silvestre zu Anton Graff. Die Bildnisse des Johann George Chevalier de Saxe', Jahrbuch Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 28 (2000), p. 57-76
H. Marx, '»dass man wahre Natur zu erblicken glaubte«. Anton Graff – Ein Bildnismaler zwischen Abbild und Vorbild. Zu drei Selbstbildnissen in der Dresdener Gemäldegalerie', in: Geest en gratie. Essays Presented to Ildikó Ember on Her Seventieth Birthday, Budapest 2012, p. 70-75

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Project: Gerson Digital : Germany (Nachwirkung)
Gerson Digital : Switzerland

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