Daniel Gran

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Daniel Gran
Born May 22, 1694 (1694-05-22)
Vienna
Died April 16, 1757 (aged 62)
Sankt Pölten
Nationality Austria
Field Painting
Training Sebastiano Ricci (Venice, Italy) and Francesco Solimena (Napels, Italy)
Movement Baroque
Works St Anna's Church's frescoes (Vienna), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Prunksaal's frescoes
Prunksaal: allegory of peace and heaven. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.
Prunksaal: allegory of peace and heaven. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.
Prunksaal: allegory of war and law. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.
Prunksaal: allegory of war and law. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.

Daniel Gran (1694-1757) is a painter born in Vienna in 1694 died at Sankt Pölten in 1757. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city and he was of some consideration in his time but his works are not known out of Austria and Germany.[1]

[edit] Works

Frescoes

Altar paintings

Self portrait in the monastery of Herzogenburg.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Bryan, Michael (1849). in Robert Edmund Graves: Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. London: George Bell and Sons, 293. 

[edit] References

  • Knab, Eckhart (1977). Daniel Gran (in German). Herold, 308. ISBN 3700801319. 
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NAME Gran, Daniel
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Painting
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1694 (1694-05-22)
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1757-04-16
PLACE OF DEATH Sankt Pölten
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