Konrad Grob (3 September 1828 – 9 January 1904) was a Swiss painter.
Konrad Grob | |
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| Born | 3 September 1828 |
| Died | 9 January 1904 (aged 75) |
| Known for | painting |
He was born in Andelfingen in the Canton of Zurich and learned lithography in the 1840s in Winterthur. He travelled to Italy, where he worked in Verona and Naples.
In 1865–1870, he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where he graduated under Arthur von Ramberg.[1] In Munich, he opened his own atelier and where he died in. He specialized in romantic paintings of rural life. His best-known painting is Pestalozzi bei den Waisen von Stans, shown today in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung (the Museum of Art) of Basel.
References
edit- ^ "Grob, Konrad". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
External links
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Media related to Konrad Grob at Wikimedia Commons- Konrad Grob in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- "Grob, Konrad". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
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