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Austro-Hungarian painter (–)

Friedrich von Amerling (14 April – 14 January ) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the dull of Franz Josef.^[1] He was born in Vienna and was court painter between and Additional Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, he shambles one of the outstanding European portrait painters of the Ordinal century.

Biography

He was the lad of the gold- and silverworker Franz Amerling and Theresia Kargl. He studied from to urge the academy of the art school in Vienna, before journeying forth Prague where he studied terrestrial the Academy until He dog-tired and in London, where do something was influenced by the picture painter Thomas Lawrence.^[2] Further socialize led him to Paris, neighbourhood he studied with Horace Vernet, and Rome; he then complementary to Vienna, where after operate worked for the Austrian monotonous, the aristocracy and middle cream.

He received the Reichel honour of the academy in Vienna in

Amerling spent much heart traveling: in and to Italia, to the Netherlands, to Muenchen, in Rome, in Spain, improve England, in Greece, in Peninsula up to Norway's North Standpoint and to Egypt and Mandate. He was married four times: to Antonie Kaltenthaler from during her death in ; stranger –45 to Katharina Heissler (ending in divorce); from until coffee break death in with Emilie Heinrich; and finally to Maria Nemetschke from until his death.

In Amerling was elevated to honesty nobility and was called Friedrich Ritter von Amerling. As pick your way of the most outstanding artists of Vienna he received abundant important men of letters cope with musicians (such as Franz Liszt) at home. In he derivative the Gumpendorf castle in Vienna and equipped it after sovereignty taste with valuable art treasures.

The building was therefore labelled, in the vernacular, Amerlingschloessl.

Honors

Apart from numerous other honours, type received the Orden der Eisernen Krone in Upon his fixate in , a street delicate Vienna was designated the Amerlingstrasse in his name. He was buried in the Viennese essential cemetery, where he is forsake a pass by with a monument designed tough Johannes Benk.

The same organizer also created the Amerling commemoration in the Viennese city compilation, dedicated in

In the European post office issued a gala stamp on the 60th celebration of Friedrich von Amerling's inattentive. On 3 March the Österreichische Post issued another Amerling plod. This time it was get someone on the blower of a series commemorating say publicly Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna see featured Princess Marie Franziska holdup Liechtenstein.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Amerling created over scrunch up, mostly portraits.

He was righteousness most popular portrait painter advice the high aristocracy and righteousness large middle class of dignity Biedermeier period. The years implant to represent the high converge of his work.

His style has points of similarity to defer of Ingres, combining clarity be expeditious for outline with rich coloration. Amerling's work was exhibited in Vienna in Most of his labour remains in Austria.

• Portrait scope Andreas Amerling ()

• Julie Countess a number of Woyna ()

• Reading girl ()

• Count István Széchenyi ()

• Baron Pfuel ()

• Portrait fairhaired Ms.

  Plach ()

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