After being a pupil of his father, Franz Knoller († 1773), then of Ignaz Pogl, Martin Knoller studied his art at the Academy of Vienna (1751 -1753) under Paul Troger (1698 -1762) and Michael Angelo... Read full biography
After being a pupil of his father, Franz Knoller († 1773), then of Ignaz Pogl, Martin Knoller studied his art at the Academy of Vienna (1751 -1753) under Paul Troger (1698 -1762) and Michael Angelo Unterberger (1695 -1758), whose taste for religious Baroque painting influenced the artist's first... Read full biography
After being a pupil of his father, Franz Knoller († 1773), then of Ignaz Pogl, Martin Knoller studied his art at the Academy of Vienna (1751 -1753) under Paul Troger (1698 -1762) and Michael Angelo Unterberger (1695 -1758), whose taste for religious Baroque painting influenced the artist's first commission for the parish church built by Franz de Paula Penz in Anras (eastern Tyrol), where he painted a fresco depicting the Glory of St. Stephen (1754). Martin Knoller, like many Austrian artists of... Read full biography
After being a pupil of his father, Franz Knoller († 1773), then of Ignaz Pogl, Martin Knoller studied his art at the Academy of Vienna (1751 -1753) under Paul Troger (1698 -1762) and Michael Angelo Unterberger (1695 -1758), whose taste for religious Baroque painting influenced the artist's first commission for the parish church built by Franz de Paula Penz in Anras (eastern Tyrol), where he painted a fresco depicting the Glory of St. Stephen (1754). Martin Knoller, like many Austrian artists of his generation, completed his apprenticeship by travelling to Rome and then to Naples in 1755. He then met Graf Karl Joseph von Firmian, Imperial Governor of Lombardy, who entrusted him with the decoration of the Firmian-Vigoni Palace (now... Read full biography
After being a pupil of his father, Franz Knoller († 1773), then of Ignaz Pogl, Martin Knoller studied his art at the Academy of Vienna (1751 -1753) under Paul Troger (1698 -1762) and Michael Angelo Unterberger (1695 -1758), whose taste for religious Baroque painting influenced the artist's first commission for the parish church built by Franz de Paula Penz in Anras (eastern Tyrol), where he painted a fresco depicting the Glory of St. Stephen (1754). Martin Knoller, like many Austrian artists of his generation, completed his apprenticeship by travelling to Rome and then to Naples in 1755. He then met Graf Karl Joseph von Firmian, Imperial Governor of Lombardy, who entrusted him with the decoration of the Firmian-Vigoni Palace (now destroyed). Between 1760 and 1765, Martin Knoller stayed in Rome where he discovered the classicising art of Pompeo Batoni, Anton Raphael Mengs and Anto... Read full biography
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