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Franz Eybl BIOGRAPHY
1806 Vienna, Austria - 1880. Known for: Portrait, figure, genre painting.
Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first... Read full biography
Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first attended the Erzverschneidungs- und Kunst professionisten schule under Josef Klieber. In 1817 he... Read full biography
Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first attended the Erzverschneidungs- und Kunst professionisten schule under Josef Klieber. In 1817 he changed to landscape painting and then to the class of history painting. His teacher Johann Peter Krafft encouraged him to observe nature closely and thus Eybl became one of Krafft’s most important... Read full biography
Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first attended the Erzverschneidungs- und Kunst professionisten schule under Josef Klieber. In 1817 he changed to landscape painting and then to the class of history painting. His teacher Johann Peter Krafft encouraged him to observe nature closely and thus Eybl became one of Krafft’s most important students. In his portraits Franz Ebyl always strived for truthfulness and true-to-life representation.... Read full biography
Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first attended the Erzverschneidungs- und Kunst professionisten schule under Josef Klieber. In 1817 he changed to landscape painting and then to the class of history painting. His teacher Johann Peter Krafft encouraged him to observe nature closely and thus Eybl became one of Krafft’s most important students. In his portraits Franz Ebyl always strived for truthfulness and true-to-life representation.... Read full biography
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Franz Eibl
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Franz Eybl, born in 1806, is one of the most important Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century. Already at the age of 10, he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he first attended the Erzverschneidungs- und Kunst professionisten schule under Josef Klieber. In 1817 he changed to landscape painting and then to the class of history painting. His teacher Johann Peter Krafft encouraged him to observe nature closely and thus Eybl became one of Krafft’s most important students. In his portraits Franz Ebyl always strived for truthfulness and true-to-life representation.Biography from Auctionata
Franz Eyble studied from 1816-28 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna initially under Josef Klieber, from 1817 under Josef Mößmer and from 1820 under Johann Baptist vom Lampi senior (history painting), as well as Franz Caucig. He was, together with Johann Mathias Ranftl and Josef Danhauser, a student of Peter Krafft.
Eventually he changed from landscape and genre painting to portraits and specialized at small portraits in oil and watercolor.