Friedrich Gärtner

Friedrich Gärtner (11 January 1824 - 1905) was a German architectural painter.

Biography

He was born in Munich, the son of the architect Friedrich von Gärtner, with whom he went to Athens in 1840. After his return, he studied at the Academy and under Simonsen, of Copenhagen, then in Paris (1846) under Claudius Jacquand; visited Spain and Morocco in 1848, lived again in Paris, in 1851-57, and settled in Munich, where two of his paintings, “Interior of a Moorish House” and “Court of a Monastery by Moonlight” (1846), are in the New Pinakothek.

See also

• List of German painters

Notes

References

• Erich Scheibmayr (1989). "Gärtner, Friedrich". Kein Grab ist stumm (in German). Retrieved 3 June 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). "Gärtner, Friedrich" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.