Preller, Friedrich (1804 Eisenach - 1878 Weimar)

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Drawing/tempera on brown paper, youth in profile looking to the left, with a pointed hat and chin-length hair, signed lower right, sheet section approx. 34 x 28 cm, with passe-partout approx. 59 x 45 cm, German painter, graphic artist and draftsman, father of the painter Friedrich Preller the Younger, 1818-21 first artistic education at the Weimar drawing school under Heinrich Meyer (supported by Goethe), 1821-23 in Dresden, Grand Duke Karl August sent him to Antwerp, where he studied 1824-26 with van Bree, 1826 on a Weimar grant to Milan, 1828-31 in Rome, where JA Koch had a decisive influence on his heroic conception of landscape