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Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his period, featuring soldiers, clowns, drunkards, Gypsies, beggars, as well as court life. He also etched many religious and military images, and many prints featured extensive landscapes in their background.
Ferdinand Johann von Olivier was a German painter, draughtsman, engraver-xylographer and lithographer of the Romantic era. Member of the Olivier family of painters. Worked mainly in the genre of landscape. Artistically, he was close to the Nazarenes.
In 1830, Ferdinand Johann Olivier moved to Munich. There, at the request of Peter von Cornelius, he succeeded Ludwig von Schorn as secretary general of the Munich Academy of Arts. In 1833, Olivier was appointed professor of art history.
