Artist

Anton Graff

Portrait of Anton Graff
Portrait of Anton Graff

Swiss, 1736–1813

Anton Graff was a Swiss Rococo painting artist. 36 works are cataloged here, principally at Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Anton Graff was born in Winterthur.

Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was a Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.

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