Folpert von Ouden Allen (1635 – 1715)

• Folbert van Alten-Allen was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and engraver.

• Born 1635 in Utrecht.

• His first signed painting De Korte Nieuwstraat te Utrecht was created around 1655.

• He has been documented in Vienna since 1677.
• He was imperial chamber painter to Leopold I and received an annual salary of initially 200 guilders from 1 January 1678, and 800 guilders from 1682.
• Between 1680 and 1703, he produced numerous bird's-eye views of the city for the emperor, including Graz (1683), Prague (1686), Vienna (1686), Bratislava (1690), Brno (1691), Olomouc (1692), Rijeka (1697), Gorizia (1698), Ljubljana (1701), and Klagenfurt (1703).
• Most of his paintings have not survived, but fortunately three copies of his bird's-eye view of the city of Vienna on the eve of the Second Turkish Siege have survived the passage of time.

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