Anton Graff Artist

Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weisse. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.

Personal facts

Anton Graff
Birth dateNovember 18, 1736
Birth place
Switzerland , Winterthur
Nationality
Switzerland
Date of deathJune 22, 1813
Place of death
Germany , Dresden

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Artist

Award
Berlin
Title of honor
Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Field of work
Portrait painting
Influenced
Caspar David Friedrich
Philipp Otto Runge
Influenced by
Antoine Pesne
Jan Kupecký
Movement
Neoclassicism

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