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Bensa, Alexander Franz Ritter von, der ÄltereBensa, Alexander (Franz) Ritter* von, the Elder, b. Lvív, Ukraine (then Lemberg), June 5, 1794, d. Vienna, after 1861, painter of horses and carriages, graphic artist and lithographer; father of Alexander von Bensa the Younger. Self-taught, created several lithographic series of typical Viennese themes, especially "Views of Vienna" ("Wiener Ansichten") and "Viennese Carriages and Carts" ("Wiener Fahrzeuge und Fuhrwerke").
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