Ernst Schweinfurth (1818 - 1877)

Ernst Schweinfurth

Ernst Schweinfurth was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a painter, landscape painter, genre painter and lithographer.

Schweinfurth lived and worked in various cities and countries and eventually settled in Rome. Traveling extensively in Italy, the artist produced landscapes, portraits, and a series of lithographs and prints depicting Italian national dress and scenes of peasant life. He was chairman of the Association of German Artists in Rome and became a member of the Munich Society of Artists