Johann Moritz Rugendas
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Johann Moritz Rugendas was a German painter, famous in the first half of the 19th century for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas. Rugendas is
Moritz Rugendas; Calotype by Franz Hanfstaengl (before 1850).
The huaso and the washerwoman
The church of Andacollo.
Feast of San Juan in Amancaes. Lima, 1843.
Alexander von Humboldt
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian
Johann Moritz Rugendas
…in the Americas. Rugendas is considered "by far the most varied and important of the European artists to visit Latin America." He was influenced by Alexander von Humboldt. Rugendas was born in Augsburg, into the seventh generation of a family of noted painters and engravers of the city (he was a great grandson of Georg…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler (1843)
Schloss Tegel, Berlin, where Alexander and his brother Wilhelm lived for several years
Schiller, Wilhelm, and Alexander von Humboldt with Goethe in Jena
Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806