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FRANZ VON LENBACH (1836-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 418 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZ VON See also:LENBACH (1836-1904)  , See also:German painter, was See also:born at Schrobenhausen, in See also:Bavaria, on the 13th of See also:December 1836 . His See also:father was a See also:mason, and the boy was intended to follow his father's See also:trade or be a builder . With this view he was sent to school at Landsberg, and then to the See also:polytechnic at See also:Augsburg . But after seeing Hofner, the See also:animal painter, execut- e Karl See also:Friedrich See also:Hartmann See also:Mayer (1786-187o), poet, and biographer of See also:Uhland, was by profession a lawyer and See also:government See also:official in See also:Wurttemberg . II See also:ing some studies, he made various attempts at See also:painting, which interesting See also:notice of these letters in the Causeries du Lundi, vol. iv. his father's orders interrupted . However, when he had seen the galleries of Augsburg and See also:Munich, he finally obtained his father's permission to become an artist, and worked for a See also:short See also:time in the studio of Grefle, the painter; after this he devoted much time to copying . Thus he was already accomplished in technique when he became the See also:pupil of See also:Piloty, with whom he set out for See also:Italy in 1858 . A few interesting See also:works remain as the outcome of this first See also:journey—" A See also:Peasant seeking Shelter from See also:Bad See also:Weather " (18J5), " The Goatherd " (186o, in the See also:Schack See also:Gallery, Munich), and " The See also:Arch of See also:Titus " (in the Pally collection, See also:Budapest) . On returning to Munich, he was at once called to See also:Weimar to take the See also:appointment of See also:professor at the See also:Academy . But he did not hold it See also:long, having made the acquaintance of See also:Count Schack, who commissioned a See also:great number of copies for his collection . See also:Lenbach returned to Italy the same See also:year, and there copied many famous pictures . He set out in 1867 for See also:Spain, where he copied not only the famous pictures by Velasquez in the Prado, but also some landscapes in the museums of See also:Granada and the See also:Alhambra (1868) .

In the previous year he had exhibited at the great See also:

exhibition at See also:Paris several portraits, one of which took a third-class See also:medal . There-after he exhibited frequently both at Munich and at See also:Vienna, and in 'goo at the Paris exhibition was awarded a See also:Grand Prix for painting . Lenbach, who died in 1904, painted many of the most remarkable personages of his time . See Berlepsch, " Lenbach," Velhagen and Klasings Monatshefte (1891) ; Begouen, See also:Les Portraits de Lenbach a l'exposition de Munich (1899); K . Knackfuss, Lenbach, and See also:Franz von Lenbach Bildnisse (1900) .

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