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Leutschau (Slovakia) 1791 - Florence 1860 Son of an engineer, he was initiated into his father's career, but at the same time he studied at the Vienna Academy. He moved to Italy in 1832, first to Rome and then to Florence in 1840. Read the full biography

Leutschau (Slovakia) 1791 - Florence 1860 Son of an engineer, he was initiated into his father's career, but at the same time he studied at the Vienna Academy. He moved to Italy in 1832, first to Rome and then to Florence in 1840. In 1841 he began to exhibit at the Florentine Academy (View of the bridge over the Arno by the architect Rodolfo Castinelli, View of a river among the cliffs), collecting immediately so successful that he opened a private landscape painting school. He was among the founding members of the Florentine Promotrice where he exhibited regularly from 1845. From that time he began to paint sacred subjects set in the landscape, based on the great examples of C. Lorrain (The trip to Emmaus, 1845, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera). In 1846 he purchased the Medici Villa of Lappeggi on the hills of Florence, where he would live until his death. The following year his Return of Tobias to his father's house was bought by the Grand Duke of Tuscany; followed by The Calling of Peter, Jacob's Meeting with Laban and finally Hagar and Ishmael (1852). In 1853 he went to Hungary for some commissions, including one for a mythological subject, a genre foreign to his repertoire.