Anton Burger (14 November 1824 – 6 July 1905) was a German painter, draftsman and etcher.

Life

Burger was born in 1824 in the

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. He studied at the

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from 1842 to 1846, where his teachers included Johann Jakob Jung,

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and

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, who suggested that he go to Munich. Burger did so in 1846, but returned after two years. In 1851, he married his childhood sweetheart Katharina Elise Heislitz. Two years later, he took a study trip to Paris with some friends, where he met Camille Corot and

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. His wife died in 1856 and, in 1858, he moved to Kronberg. The following year, he took a trip to

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and Amsterdam, where he was heavily influenced by the

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. On his return, he married Anna Johanna Auguste Küster, the daughter of Kronberg's most prominent doctor. She died in 1876. In 1861, he and

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(an old friend from his days at the Städelschule) founded the Kronberg Artists' Colony, where he remained until his death. He was highly regarded and came to be known as the "King of Kronberg". In 1882 he married again, this time to a former student, Pauline Fresenius, who was slightly more than thirty years his junior. He was appointed a Royal Prussian Professor in 1894. He was a prolific and versatile painter, producing works in almost every genre. His paintings sold very well and, in the area around Kronberg, it was considered a sign of good taste to have a "Burger" in one's home.

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Kronberg Artists' Colony website: Biography and appreciation of Burger

ArtNet: Paintings (195) by Burger.

Anton Burger @ J.P.Schneider Galleries
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burger, Anton 1824 births 1905 deaths Artists from Frankfurt 19th-century German painters German male painters 19th-century German male artists

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