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ADRIAN LUDWIG RICHTER (1803-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADRIAN See also:LUDWIG See also:RICHTER (1803-1884)  , See also:German painter and etcher, was See also:born at See also:Dresden in 1803, the son of the engraver Karl See also:August See also:Richter, from whom he received his training; but he was strongly influenced by Erhard and • See also:Chodowiecki . He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century . His See also:work is as typically German and homely as are the See also:fairy-tales of See also:Grimm . Richter visited See also:Italy froth 1823–26, and his " See also:Thunder-See also:storm in the See also:Sabine Mountains " at the Staedel See also:Institute in See also:Frankfort is one of the rare See also:Italian subjects from his See also:brush . In 1828 he worked as designer for the See also:Meissen factory, and in 1841 he became See also:professor and See also:head of the landscape atelier at the Dresden See also:Academy: The Dresden See also:Gallery owns one of his best and most characteristic paintings in the " Bridal Procession in a See also:Spring Landscape." He died at Loschwitz near Dresden in 1884 .

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