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1805 Menzenschwand, Black Forest, Germany - 1873 Frankfurt au Main, Germany. Known for: Portrait painting of aristocrats, lithography.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer*, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with... Read full biography
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer*, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies... Read full biography
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer*, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855), and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865). Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany's... Read full biography
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer*, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855), and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865). Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany's Black Forest in the Electorate of Baden, on 20 April 1805. He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773–1863), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer (1765–1838), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family.... Read full biography
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer*, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855), and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865). Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany's Black Forest in the Electorate of Baden, on 20 April 1805. He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773–1863), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer (1765–1838), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family. His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life. Of the eight brothers and sisters, only four surv... Read full biography
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Art Media
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Academic Classicism of French Academie des Beaux Arts
Art Subject
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •France Before 1900
Art School
- •Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Royal Academy, Student
Added Description
- •Official Royal Court Artist