Johann Anton Castell - Artist Info

About Johann Anton Castell

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  • Biography

    Johann Anton Castell studied 1827 in the landscape category of the Dresden Academy, which he did because of his "messy hours visit" in 1828 had to leave again.

    From 1829 he trained as a pupil of Johann Christian Dahl further from the landscape painter. Among his favorite motifs belonged Dresden and the immediate environment, but also the travels of the artist in the Alps, leaving reflections in his work. Although the literature does not travel the artist is documented by Italy and France, yet speak different paintings such as the "view of the Lago di Como" from 1841 for a stay south of the Alps (Hampel Kunstauktionen, June 30, 2016).

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