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1803 Freistadt, Austria - 1887 Eferding, Austria. Known for: Bestiary painting in surrealist style, mammals, fish, birds, snakes.
Austrian painter, Aloys Zötl was born on April 13, 1803 in Freistadt and lived in Eferding, in a relatively well-to-do artisanal environment. Encouraged by his father, a master dyer, he took his... Read full biography
Austrian painter, Aloys Zötl was born on April 13, 1803 in Freistadt and lived in Eferding, in a relatively well-to-do artisanal environment. Encouraged by his father, a master dyer, he took his first steps into the world of art as a self-taught artist, and from the very beginning, he started... Read full biography
Austrian painter, Aloys Zötl was born on April 13, 1803 in Freistadt and lived in Eferding, in a relatively well-to-do artisanal environment. Encouraged by his father, a master dyer, he took his first steps into the world of art as a self-taught artist, and from the very beginning, he started working on sketches and watercolours depicting real or fantastic animals. Although he never travelled, he developed a genuine concern for scientific truth and a naturalistic rigour through books. In the... Read full biography
Austrian painter, Aloys Zötl was born on April 13, 1803 in Freistadt and lived in Eferding, in a relatively well-to-do artisanal environment. Encouraged by his father, a master dyer, he took his first steps into the world of art as a self-taught artist, and from the very beginning, he started working on sketches and watercolours depicting real or fantastic animals. Although he never travelled, he developed a genuine concern for scientific truth and a naturalistic rigour through books. In the absence of any other biographical details, Zötl devoted himself from 1831 to 1887 to the study of the living world by undertaking a bestiary consisting of 320 large watercolours. While none of his contemporaries seemed to pay attention to it, he... Read full biography
Austrian painter, Aloys Zötl was born on April 13, 1803 in Freistadt and lived in Eferding, in a relatively well-to-do artisanal environment. Encouraged by his father, a master dyer, he took his first steps into the world of art as a self-taught artist, and from the very beginning, he started working on sketches and watercolours depicting real or fantastic animals. Although he never travelled, he developed a genuine concern for scientific truth and a naturalistic rigour through books. In the absence of any other biographical details, Zötl devoted himself from 1831 to 1887 to the study of the living world by undertaking a bestiary consisting of 320 large watercolours. While none of his contemporaries seemed to pay attention to it, he finally achieved consecration following two sales at Drouot, in 1955 and 1956, at which several of his drawings were dispersed. His work was... Read full biography
