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Eybl, Franz
© Copyright Franz Eybl, self-portrait 1844 Eybl, Franz, b. Vienna, April 1, 1806, d. Vienna, April 29, 1880, genre-painter, portraitist and lithographer; strongly influenced by J. P. Krafft; 1853 curator of the imperial and royal picture gallery at Belvedere Palace; from 1867 teacher at the imperial Institute of Restoration. Together with F. G. Waldmüller was one of the masters of middle-class genre-painting during the "Vormärz" period (time between the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and the revolution of 1848). Literature: I. Kastel, F. E., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1983.
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