Franz Quallio (1844 - 1920)

Franz Quallio

Franz Quaglio was a German painter of the last third of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of Italian origin. He is known as a painter, genre painter and animalist, a member of the Quaglio dynasty of artists, son of Simon Quaglio, a famous painter and decorator.

Franz Quaglio exhibited his works at various exhibitions from the early 1860s and is recognized as a master of miniature genre scenes with romantic, oriental and military motifs. He also dabbled in the creation of landscapes. Quaglio was a prolific artist and traveled extensively, visiting Italy, Turkey, Greece, and the Caucasus.