Eduard Weichberger - Artist Info

About Eduard Weichberger

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    Alexander Heinrich Wilhelm Eduard Weichberger (5 March 1843, Krauthausen - 19 August 1913, Weimar) was a German painter who specialized in forest landscapes and rural scenes.
    He was the sixth child of First Lieutenant and manorial owner Alexander Weichberger and his wife, Amalie. In 1848, the family moved from Krauthausen to Eisenach.

    From 1860 to 1861, he attended the Polytechnische Schule in Dresden (now the Technical University of Dresden), where he studied architecture. This was apparently not to his liking as, after only one semester, he left to enroll at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar. Until 1862, he studied with Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach then, until 1868, with Alexander Michelis and, finally, with Max S...

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