Franz Hanfstaengl

Hanfstaengl was born on March 1, 1804 in Baiernrain bei Bad Tolz. He was a German painter, lithographer and photographer. In 1816 he came on the recommendation of the town-school-teachers into the drawing-class of the leave-day school at Munich led by Hermann Josef Mitterer. He was taught lithography and he had contact with Alois Senefelder and studiedform 1819 to 1825 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1826 he went to Dresden and began his great work, he completed in 1852, of copying in lithograph the canvases of the Dresden Gallery. Between 1835 and 1852 Hanfstaengl brought out about 200 lithographic reproductions of masterworks from the Dresden picture-gallery, and published them in a portfolio. In 1833 in founded in Munich a lithographic establishment of his own, which he kept open until 1868, and to which he later attached a fine art printing shop and a photographic workshop. He was nicknamed 'Count Litho.' He later produced portraits of famous people such as King Ludwig II, Otto von Bismarck and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Hanfstaengl passed away on April 18, 1877 in Munich.

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