Anton Graff

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Anton Graff (1736 - 1813)

• Was a Swiss portrait artist.
• Anton Graff was born as the seventh child of the craftsman Ulrich Graff and Barbara Graff née Koller.
• Graff made portraits of nearly 1,000 of his contemporaries and was the leading portrait painter in Germany.
• Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weisse.
• His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
• In Winterthur and Dresden there are streets named after Anton Graff.
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Anton Graff, The Waterfall by the Gamekeeper`s Lodge at the Entrance to the Plauenscher Grund at Evening, c. 1800

Original, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Visited in 2018.

Anton Graff, Elisabeth Sophie Augusta graff née Sulzer (1753-1812) and her daughter Caroline Susanne (1781-1828), c. 1790

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Anton Graff, Portrait of Count Christophe Urbanowski, 1791

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Anton Graff, Portrait of Count Christophe Urbanowski, 1791

Anton Graff, Portrait of painter Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1767.

Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.

Anton Graff, Portrait of August Siegfried Mahlmann, 1807

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Portrait of the market worker Johann Samuel Nagel, 1774

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Portrait of Carl Christian Heinrich Rost, c. 1794

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Praying Old Man (Shoemaker Johann Gottlob Reinhardt), 1802

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Praying Old Man (Shoemaker Johann Gottlob Reinhardt), 1802

Anton Graff, Self-portrait, 1813

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Self-portrait, 1813

Anton Graff, Self-portrait in front of easel, 1806

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Self-portrait in front of easel, 1806

Anton Graff, Portrait of Adam Friedrich Oeser, c. 1770

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Portrait of Adam Friedrich Oeser, c. 1770

Anton Graff, Gottfried Winckler, 1769

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Gottfried Winckler, 1769

Anton Graff, Portrait Johanna Henriette Winckler, 1769

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Portrait Johanna Henriette Winckler, 1769

Anton Graff, Portrait of Elisabeth Louise Auguste von Funck, c. 1790

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.

Anton Graff, Portrait of Sophie Gabain, c. 1795

Original. Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany. Visited in 2023.