man with writing plate — Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Artist: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
Date: 1817
Location: Führermuseum

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

1793–1865 · Austrian Empire

Austrian painter who fought the Vienna Academy to champion nature study and plein air painting decades before Impressionism.

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