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Wendelin Moosbrugger, or Mosbrugger (20 October 1760 in
Au, Vorarlberg
Au is a town in the Bregenz Forest in Vorarlberg (Austria).
Geography
The town belongs to the Bregenz Forest, is part of the district of Bregenz, and lies in the '' Upper Bregenz Forst.''
40 percent of its 45 km² area is covered wit ...
– 20 August 1849 in
Aarau
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) was an Austrian portrait painter and
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 ...
. He came from a family that had a widespread reputation as builders, plasterers and painters.
Life and work
As a child, he showed a special talent for drawing and painting. He received his first training in
Konstanz
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and worked as a decorative painter. He attracted the attention of Elector
Charles Frederick, while painting at the Electoral residence in
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...
, and was enrolled at the recently established
Palatine Academy.
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Although he lived in Konstanz after 1794, he was also active in
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
and Vienna, as well as at the court in
Stuttgart
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. He also did portraits of the nobility in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
. Following the example of
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
, German princes flocked to have themselves immortalized in paint. He did, in fact, do a portrait of Napoleon's brother
Jérôme, the
King of Westphalia. In 1810, King
Frederick I of Württemberg
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, caption = Portrait by Johann Baptist Seele
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Treptow an der Rega, Prussia (now Trzebiatów, Poland)
, death_date =
, death_place = Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württe ...
appointed him to be the
court painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...
.
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He died in Aarau, at the home of his son , a noted mathematician.
His sons
Friedrich Friedrich may refer to:
Names
* Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
* Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
* Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Year ...
and
Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...
also became painters, and his son was an architect.
References
Further reading
* Michael Bringmann, Sigrid von Blanckenhagen: ''Die Mosbrugger. Die Konstanzer Maler Wendelin, Friedrich und Joseph Mosbrugger''. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1974,
* ''Die Konstanzer Maler Wendelin, Friedrich, Joseph Mosbrugger''. Kunstverein Konstanz 1969
External links
*
Wendelin Moosbrugger@ the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek
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1760 births
1849 deaths
Austrian painters
Austrian male painters
Portrait painters