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Johann König was a German painter. The son of a Nuremberg goldsmith, König was a follower of Adam Elsheimer. He is known today primarily because of his very finely painted copper panels.
Johann Georg Ziesenis was a German portrait painter. He came from a family of artisans and artists of the 17th and 18th centuries whose works are attributed to the Hanoverian Rococo.
Johann Baptist Drechsler was an Austrian floral artist. He was born into a family of porcelain painters and worked for ten years at the Viennese porcelain manufactory. He is known for his colorful floral still lifes, including fruit and birds.
Johannes Holst was a German sailor and self-taught painter who specialised in seascapes.
Johann Liss was a German painter of the first third of the 17th century. He is known as a painter, draughtsman and printmaker, who worked in Italy for much of his life, and as the son and namesake of Johann Liss, a painter at the court of the Dukes of Holstein.
Johann Liss worked primarily in the mythological genre. He is considered one of the key artists of the German Baroque and a prominent representative of the Venetian school. Early in his career, the artist traveled to the Netherlands, where he was influenced by a number of Dutch and Flemish masters. Italy inspired him to synthesize Dutch genre painting, Venetian style and Roman realism.
His paintings are in numerous European collections as well as in Russia and the United States.
Johann Jakob Frey was a Swiss landscape painter.
Johann Jakob Frey travelled extensively in Italy, especially in and around Rome, making landscape sketches. In his studio he used these sketches to create paintings. He also traveled to Spain and Egypt to sketch for later works.
Frey's pictorial style is based on paintings by Josef Koch or Franz Horny. For example, they often feature a richly detailed foreground, which often shows elements such as winding paths or rivers drawing the viewer's attention away.
Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a German painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, a representative of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Preyer specialized in still lifes with flowers and fruit, which were notable for their detailed and meticulous elaboration. He is considered the preeminent painter of this genre of his era. His work is common in the United States, but there are also important pieces in the Berlin National Gallery and other German museums.
Preyer was one of the first representatives of the Düsseldorf School and was instrumental in founding the Düsseldorf Artists' Association.
