Franz de Paula Ferg studied landscape painting with his father, Adam Pankraz Ferg (1651-1729), and with Josef Orient (1677-1747) and staffage painting with Johann (Hans) Graf (1653-1710). He also... Read full biography
Franz de Paula Ferg studied landscape painting with his father, Adam Pankraz Ferg (1651-1729), and with Josef Orient (1677-1747) and staffage painting with Johann (Hans) Graf (1653-1710). He also studied the engravings of Jacques Callot and Sébastien Leclerc. His early works show such subjects as... Read full biography
Franz de Paula Ferg studied landscape painting with his father, Adam Pankraz Ferg (1651-1729), and with Josef Orient (1677-1747) and staffage painting with Johann (Hans) Graf (1653-1710). He also studied the engravings of Jacques Callot and Sébastien Leclerc. His early works show such subjects as harbours, markets and villages as wide vistas with many figures, trees and buildings, for example Fair with Temple and Maypole (Vienna, Belvedere). These scenes combine landscape and genre and are... Read full biography
Franz de Paula Ferg studied landscape painting with his father, Adam Pankraz Ferg (1651-1729), and with Josef Orient (1677-1747) and staffage painting with Johann (Hans) Graf (1653-1710). He also studied the engravings of Jacques Callot and Sébastien Leclerc. His early works show such subjects as harbours, markets and villages as wide vistas with many figures, trees and buildings, for example Fair with Temple and Maypole (Vienna, Belvedere). These scenes combine landscape and genre and are characteristic examples of early 18th-century Austrian panel painting, showing the influence of Dutch, Flemish and Italian models. The colours are dark, and the staffage figures in the manner of Graf are slender, with small heads and peculiarly wooden... Read full biography
Franz de Paula Ferg studied landscape painting with his father, Adam Pankraz Ferg (1651-1729), and with Josef Orient (1677-1747) and staffage painting with Johann (Hans) Graf (1653-1710). He also studied the engravings of Jacques Callot and Sébastien Leclerc. His early works show such subjects as harbours, markets and villages as wide vistas with many figures, trees and buildings, for example Fair with Temple and Maypole (Vienna, Belvedere). These scenes combine landscape and genre and are characteristic examples of early 18th-century Austrian panel painting, showing the influence of Dutch, Flemish and Italian models. The colours are dark, and the staffage figures in the manner of Graf are slender, with small heads and peculiarly wooden poses. In 1718 Ferg left Vienna and went to Franconia, Bamberg, and Leipzig. There he met Johann Alexande... Read full biography
Franz De Paula-Ferg - Art Prices in Auction LotsAuction Lots
An Italianate town with figures gathered around a 'commedia dell'arte' play, a castle on a hill beyond; and An Italianate town with figures dancing the 'Saltarello' and making music (2)
An Italianate townscape with figures gathered around a commedia dell'arte performance; and An Italianate townscape with figures making merry and dancing the 'saltarello' (pair)
A MOUNTAINOUS RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH NUMEROUS FIGURES ON THE RIVERBANK, MEN DRINKING IN A QUAYSIDE TAVERN BEYOND; A MOUNTAINOUS RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A FERRY CROWDED WITH FIGURES BENEATH A CASTLE (2)