Wilhelm Richter - Artist Info

About Wilhelm Richter

  • Biography

    Austrian portrait, genre, hunting and military painter

    (1824 Vienna to 1892 Mödling-Brühl), studied at the Vienna Academy f

    From 1838-40 under Johann Nepomuk Ender and Leopold Kupelwieser, sent exhibitions at the Vienna Academy

    From 1838 during the Italian campaign 1848/49 and the Sardinia campaign of 1859 employment as battle painter in the KuK Headquarters,

    In the 1870s frequent stays in the Hungarian Gödöllö, where he portrayed Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth and their hunting party on their estate and Gödöllö Castle donated by the Hungarian state,

    From 1872 member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus, active in Vienna, Quelle...

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