Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German artist (1741-1813)
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Place of Birth: Ehrenkirchen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder
- Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder (1741–1813), who was born at Ehrenstetten, near Freiburg in Breisgau, was a painter of historical and genre subjects.
- He was at first a pupil of Rösch at Freiburg and of Ignaz Bauer at Augsburg.
- He afterwards visited Italy, the Netherlands, and Paris.
- He was a professor and director of the Gallery at Munich in 1770, and died in that city in 1813.
- In the Darmstadt Gallery is a picture of Two Soldiers and a Maiden by him; and in the Pinakothek at Munich, a Linen Draper, which is a portrait of his wife, dated 1775. The amateur Amalia von Schattenhofer was a pupil of Dorner.
- His son also became a painter.
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