With the arrival of this self-portrait (1765) on 16 January 1766, in Dresden, Graff's career as one of the most famous portrait artists of the Neoclassicism began
Born
(1736-11-18)18 November 1736
Winterthur, Swiss Confederacy
Died
22 June 1813(1813-06-22) (aged 76)
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
Nationality
Swiss
Education
Johann Ulrich Schellenberg, Johann Jacob Haid, Leonhard Schneider
Known for
Portrait Painting
Notable work
Portrait of Frederick the Great (1781). His masterpiece
Movement
Neoclassicism
Awards
1783: Honorary Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1812: Honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Patron(s)
Royal Courts of Prussia and Saxony
Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
AntonGraff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald...
Christian Franke, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, AntonGraff, Johann Georg Wille Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Daniel Chodowiecki. The...
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1787 is in the Frederiksborg Palace Museum. Another portrait of her by AntonGraff is in Sønderborg Castle. Danish author Maria Helleberg has written a...
specialised in portrait painting. He was a contemporary of the Swiss painters AntonGraff, Jean Preudhomme, Angelica Kauffman, Johann Jakob Schalch, Johann Caspar...
Schweiz, appeared in the 18th century. Two Swiss artists, Adrian Zingg and AntonGraff, were appointed in 1766 to the Dresden Academy of Art. From their new...
Germany. The name was inspired by the Swiss artists Adrian Zingg and AntonGraff, who were reminded of their homeland by the geography of northern Bohemia...
attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1801 to 1804 studying with AntonGraff and making contact with a broader circle of figures in the burgeoning...
to accompany Traugott Leberecht Pochmann [de] and Graff's son, the landscape painter, Carl AntonGraff [de], on a study trip to Paris and Italy. Their trip...
often compared himself to Frederick the Great, and he kept a copy of AntonGraff's portrait of Frederick with him to the end in the Führerbunker in Berlin...
of Parma Princess Maximilian of Saxony Princess Carolina portrayed by AntonGraff, 1792 Born (1770-11-22)22 November 1770 Ducal Palace of Colorno, Parma...
Frederick William II Portrait by AntonGraff King of Prussia Elector of Brandenburg Reign 17 August 1786 – 16 November 1797 Predecessor Frederick II Successor...
Retrieved 13 May 2014. Robert Eberhardt (Hrsg.), Friedrich Dieckmann: AntonGraff – Porträts eines Porträtisten. Wolff Verlag, Berlin 2013, S. 121 Schaumrollen...
Rulers of Saxony Dresden Castle – Residence of Frederick Augustus I "AntonGraff (1736-1813) - Friedrich August I, King of Saxony (1750-1827)". www.rct...
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Moses Mendelssohn Portrait by AntonGraff (1773) Born (1729-09-06)6 September 1729 Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau Died 4 January 1786(1786-01-04) (aged 56) Berlin...
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