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Friedrich Salzer (1 June 1827,
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. In 1863, he returned to Heilbronn and married Emilie von Lobstein, with whom he had four sons. After his father's retirement, he took over management of the paint factory. That, coupled with increasingly poor health, left him little time for painting during the last decade of his life.
Friedrich Salzer (1 June 1827, Heilbronn
Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state.
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- 14 May 1876, Heilbronn) was a German landscape painter. He specialized in winter scenes and forest views.
Biography
His father, Johann Jakob Salzer (1798–1879) came fromDettingen an der Erms
Dettingen an der Erms (Dettingen on the Erms River) is a town in the district of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town about twelve kilometers north-east of Reutlingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg or about 46 kilometers from Stuttgart. T ...
to open a paint store, which eventually became a paint factory. He was born to his father's first wife, Elisabeth. After becoming a widower in 1860, his father married again, to the much younger Caroline Haas, who gave birth to his half-brother, , a publisher of evangelical literature.
He initially worked in his father's paint factory, while taking lessons from a local artist named Karl Baumann. In 1846, upon Baumann's recommendation, he moved to Munich to continue his artistic training and began his studies with the Tyrolean painter, Joseph Anton Rhomberg, who had been a Professor in Munich since 1827. His circle of friends there included Carl Ebert, Richard Zimmermann, who influenced his style, and Alexander von Kotzebue
Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Franz von Kotzebue (russian: Алекса́ндр Евста́фиевич Коцебу́, tr. ; 9 June 1815 – 24 August 1889) was a German Romantic painter of historical scenes and battle scenes.
Life
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, a battle painter for whom he provided some landscape backgrounds.''Nekrologe.'' (obituary) In: ''Kunst-Chronik.'' 25. August 1876, pg. 738Online
. In 1863, he returned to Heilbronn and married Emilie von Lobstein, with whom he had four sons. After his father's retirement, he took over management of the paint factory. That, coupled with increasingly poor health, left him little time for painting during the last decade of his life.
References
Further reading
* "Salzer, Friedrich". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol. 29: Rosa–Scheffauer. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1935, pg.370 * Gert Nagel: ''Schwäbisches Künstlerlexikon: vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart.'', Kunst und Antiquitäten, Munich 1986, , pg.101External links
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