Artist

Johann Moritz Rugendas

Portrait of Johann Moritz Rugendas
Portrait of Johann Moritz Rugendas

Kingdom of Bavaria, 1804–1858

Johann Moritz Rugendas was a Kingdom of Bavaria artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Johann Moritz Rugendas was born in Augsburg.

Johann Moritz Rugendas (29 March 1802 – 29 May 1858) was a German painter, famous in the first half of the 19th century for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas. Rugendas is considered "by far the most varied and important of the European artists to visit Latin America." He was influenced by Alexander von Humboldt.

Works by Johann Moritz Rugendas

Collections represented

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