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Michael Croissant was a German artist and sculptor.
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein was a German painter of the last quarter of the 18th and early 19th centuries. He is known as an academic painter of the Classical era, specializing in portraits, a representative of a large dynasty of artists.
August Tischbein was court painter to Prince Friedrich Karl August and Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz. He traveled to Italy, where he improved his skills in portrait painting, and achieved success in Berlin and Dresden. In 1799, the artist became director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. From 1806 to 1808 he worked in St. Petersburg, where he created portraits of courtiers and representatives of the aristocracy. His works are characterized by strict composition, exquisite coloring and sentimental style of the era. Several of his paintings can be found in the St. Petersburg Hermitage.
Ferdinand Keller was a German painter of the last third of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a genre and historical painter as well as a teacher.
Keller earned his first major success in 1867 with his painting The Death of King Philip II of Spain. In his monumental works, he celebrated historical, dynastic, and cultural episodes in the history of Germany and Baden. One of his famous works is the painting "Apotheosis of Kaiser Wilhelm I", which was purchased by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Keller's works now grace the halls of theaters including the Baden State Theater and the Semper Opera in Dresden.
