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Karl Jakob Theodor Leybold (19 March 1786,

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

- 20 July 1844, Stuttgart) was a German painter, engraver and

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

Biography

He was born to the

miniaturist A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

and copper engraver,

Johann Friedrich Leybold Johann Friedrich Leybold (18 June 1755, Stuttgart - 13 November 1838, Vienna) was a German miniaturist painter and copper engraver. Biography He was the son of a Master baker. As a young employee of the porcelain factory in Ludwigsburg, his s ...

, who also taught engraving in Vienna. It was there, at the Academy of Fine Arts, that Karl received his artistic training. One his father's associates, Eberhard von Wächter, had a major influence on his choice of subject matter and style. In 1807, thanks to a grant from the art patron and collector, Count Moritz von Fries, he was able to travel to Rome, where he studied and worked until 1814. Then, after a few more years in Vienna, where he earned his living painting portraits, he returned to Stuttgart in 1821, where he later served as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts (from 1829), and Inspector at the old Staatsgalerie (from 1842). He was named an honorary member of the Vienna Academy in 1836. His 1826 depiction of

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was personally praised by

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

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/ref> Three of his brothers were also artists: , and Rudolf Moritz (1806-1857). One of his sisters married the landscape painter,

Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf (1 March 1779, Stuttgart - 20 May 1861, Stuttgart) was a German landscape painter in the Classicism, Classical style. Biography He was the fifth of fourteen children born to the animal and porcelain painter, Johann F ...

, who had studied with his father.

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