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Franz Anton Maulbertsch
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The frescoes of Franz Anton Maulbertsch are the culminating achievement of 18th century Austrian fresco painting. His highly personal interpretation of the rococo gradually gave way to a more rational, classicizing approach.
Background
Franz Anton Maulbertsch was born in Langenargen on Lake Constance on June 8, 1724, the son of a painter.
Education
He studied in Vienna with Peter van Roy and in 1741 enrolled at the academy, where he received the painting prize in 1750.
Career
Maulbertsch became a professor in the academy in 1770, for which occasion he produced his Allegory of the Destiny of Art.
Although Maulbertsch produced easel paintings of great beauty (Holy Kindred, St.
Narcissus, Self-portrait), he is chiefly and justly famous for his frescoes. In Vienna and other cities of Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Hungary he created scores of vibrantly dramatic and brilliantly col