Anton Graff (1736-1813)

Aliases: Antoine Craff; A. Graff; Anton (1736) Graff

Professions: Portrait painter; Painter; Miniaturist; Etcher

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  Anton Graff (Winterthur 1736-1813 Dresden)

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  ANTON GRAFF 1736-1813 SELBSTBILDNIS MIT PINSELN UND PALETTE

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  ANTON GRAFF 1736-1813 BILDNIS ELISABETH REINHART, 1786 BLEISTIFT, TUSCHE UND WEISS GEHÖHT AUF

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  ANTON GRAFF, WINTERTHUR 1736 - 1813 DRESDEN

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Anton Graff Biography

(b Winterthur, 18 Nov 1736; d Dresden, 22 June 1813). Swiss painter, active in Germany. He was a pupil of Johann Ulrich Schellenburg (1709–95) in Winterthur and continued his training with Johann Jakob Haid in Augsburg between 1756 and 1765. He worked for the court painter Leonhard Schneider (1716–62) in Ansbach from 1757 to 1759, producing large numbers of copies of a portrait of Frederick the Great (probably by Antoine Pesne). This was an important step in furthering his career, as were the months he spent in Regensburg (1764–5) painting miniatures of clerics and town councillors. He was court painter to the Elector Frederick-Christian of Saxe-Weimar in Dresden from 1766 and taught at the Hochschule der Bildende Künste there. In 1771 he travelled to Berlin, where he painted portraits of Jakob Mendelssohn , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and J. G. Sulzer . Sulzer introduced him at court, which resulted in many commissions. He was invited several times to teach at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, but he remained in Dresden. He often travelled to Leipzig, and in summer he frequently went to Teplitz (now Teplice, Czech Republic) and Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic); he also worked in Berlin on several occasions and returned to Switzerland for visits.

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