1. Peter Fendi was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer.
12 Facts About Peter Fendi
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Peter Fendi was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period.
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Peter Fendi fell from a changing table as an infant, an accident which caused irreparable damage to his spine.
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Peter Fendi was admitted to the St Anna's Academy of Fine Art in 1810 at the age of thirteen, where he studied for three years under Johann Martin Fischer, Hubert Maurer and Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder.
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Fendi met Joseph Barth, an art collector and the personal ophthalmologist of Joseph II, and through Barth's connections to other influential artists, in 1818 Fendi found a job at the Imperial Gallery of Coins and Antiquities, where he worked as a draughtsman and engraver.
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Peter Fendi received a gold medal in 1821 for his oil painting Vilenica, and was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1836.
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Peter Fendi painted in oil and watercolours, as well as working with printing, etching, lithography and wood carving.
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Multicolored prints by Peter Fendi are considered pioneering achievements in the field of lithography.
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Peter Fendi is remembered for his genre scenes, influenced by Dutch painters such as Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade and Rembrandt.
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Peter Fendi is well known for his portraits of the aristocracy.
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Peter Fendi engraved a series five of Austrian banknotes that were issued in 1841.
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Peter Fendi's works are preserved in the Albertina Museum, the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere, Kunsthistorisches Museum, and in the collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein in Vaduz.