Samuel Amsler
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Samuel Amsler, a Swiss engraver, was born at Schinznach, in the canton of Aargau. He studied his art under Johan Heinrich Lips and Karl Ernst Hess, at Munich, and from 1816 pursued it in Italy, and ch
Samuel Amsler
Wilhelm von Kaulbach
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Wilhelm von Kaulbach was a German painter, muralist, and book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Samuel Amsler
…years. His portrait album, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, includes a fine head of the poet Friedrich Rückert.(1) A family portrait of Amsler by Wilhelm von Kaulbach is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.(2)The portrait on the right is also by von Kaulbach (1833). (1) Colin J. Bailey, 'Samuel Amsler's…
Photograph of Wilhelm von Kaulbach in 1864
Sketches for frescos in the New Pinakothek, 1850
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Schmetterlinge (Butterflies), c. 1860 (destroyed in 1945)