August Riedel

August Riedel (1827)
Portrait of Therese von Schenk, 1831

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich August Riedel (25 December 1799, Bayreuth - 6 August 1883, Rome)[1] was a German painter.

The son of architect Karl Christian Riedel, August Riedel attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 1820 on, where he proved to have an eye for color. He developed his sense of color further in Italy, where he moved in 1828.

References

  1. Christa Schaper: August Riedel. Ein Bayreuther Maler-Professor an der römischen Akademie San Luca. There are discrepancies in the date of birth: the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie has 1800; another source has 1802: Preyer, David Charles (1912). The art of the Berlin galleries: giving a history of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum with a critical description of the paintings therein contained, together with a brief account of the National Gallery of XIX Century Art. L.C. Page. p. 290.


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