August Querfurt
Illustration — Battle of the imperial cavalry with the Turks, Palace on the Water in Warsaw. August Querfurt (1696, Wolfenbüttel – 1761, Vienna) was an Austrian painter. He painted primarily soldiers and battle scenes.
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August Querfurt
Franz Sebald Unterberger · https: digital.belvedere.at/objects/2883/der-schlachtenmaler-august-querfurt · Public domain
- Born
- 1696 · Wolfenbüttel.
- Died
- 1761 · Vienna.
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- Germany
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- painter
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Battle of the imperial cavalry with the Turks, Palace on the Water in Warsaw. August Querfurt (1696, Wolfenbüttel – 1761, Vienna) was an Austrian painter. He painted primarily soldiers and battle scenes.
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He was first instructed by his father, Tobias Querfurt, a landscape and animal painter, and afterwards studied under Rugendas at Augsburg. He painted encampments, battles, skirmishes of cavalry, and hunting subjects, in all of which he appears rather as an imitator than as an original painter. He sometimes imitated the manner of Bourguignon, Parrocel, and Van der Meulen, but more especially sought to form his style after Wouwerman. He died in Vienna in 1761. The Belvedere Museum possesses two hunting-pieces by him; the Augsburg Gallery, four, and a battle; others are in Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart and Bratislava.
The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Augsburg and Vienna. Work by August Querfurt is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Nationalmuseum, Statens Museum for Kunst, Hermitage Museum and Bavarian State Painting Collections.
Austrian attack on the Prussian convoy near Olomouc, 30 July 1758 (Wien Museum, Inventarnummer HMW 199437)
August Querfurt · Angriff der Österreicher auf einen preußischen Konvoi bei Olmütz am 30. Juni 1758. Wien Museum. Onlineː https: sammlung.wienmuseum.at/en/object/369304-angriff-der-oesterreicher-auf-einen-preussischen
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1696
August Querfurt was born on 1 January 1696.
1761
August Querfurt died on 1 January 1761.
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The authorities additionally record the headings August Ruerfurt, Augustus Querfurth, August Querfurth, August Guerfurt and Wiener Querfurt.
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