Albert Zimmermann (1808 - 1888)
1808-09-20Zittau, Germany1888-10-18Munich, GermanyGermany
Albert Zimmermann
August Albert Zimmermann was a German artist. The eldest of the artist brothers Max, Robert and Richard Zimmermann.
Albert Zimmermann studied painting at the Dresden University School of Fine Arts and, from 1831, at the Munich Academy. In Munich the artist created a school of landscape painting that was popular with the locals. Since 1857 August Albert Zimmermann is professor of painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.
Zimmermann was a major representative of heroic-historical landscape painting. He chose subjects for his canvases as a rule among mountainous terrain, often using events from biblical history. Later he created poetic pictures of idyllic nature.
Date and place of birt: | 20 september 1808, Zittau, Germany |
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Date and place of death: | 18 october 1888, Munich, Germany |
Nationality: | Germany |
Period of activity: | XIX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Painter |
Genre: | History painting, Mountain landscape, Landscape painting, Rural landscape |
Art style: | Romanticism |