Franz Xavier Wolfle - Artist Info

About Franz Xavier Wolfle

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Franz Xavier Woelfle
  • Biography

    Franz Xavier Wolfe was born in the old city Kaufbeuren, Bavaria in 1887, and died in the small mountain city of Zankenhaus, Germany in 1972. Wolfe is considered a miniature portrait artist from the German school.

    In 1907, Wolfle traveled to Munich to study painting at the Academy of Fine Art, which was founded 1808 by Maximilian I of Bavaria in Munich as the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts", and is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany.

    Wolfle studies were interrupted with the outbreak of World War I. Upon the war's conclusion, Franz began painting highly detail miniature portraits to support his family. These wonderful miniature masterpieces (painted using a brush with a single hair) ca...

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