Karl Auerbach (1723 – c.1786) was an Austrian painter. The son of

Johann Gottfried Auerbach Johann Gottfried Auerbach (28 October 1697 – 5 August 1753) was an Austrian painter and etcher. He painted primarily portraits and battle genre works. Some of his works can be found at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1735, he was appointed Imp ...

, he was born at Vienna, and became, under his father's instruction, a talented painter of portraits and history. The cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna possesses an

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and a ceilingpainting by him. At Hetzendorf and

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there are also examples of his art. Karl Auerbach died in Vienna in 1786 (or 1788).

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* 18th-century Austrian painters 18th-century Austrian male artists Austrian male painters 1723 births 1780s deaths Artists from Vienna {{Austria-painter-stub