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Franz Richard Unterberger was an artist born on 15 August 1838 in Innsbruck, Austria, son of a bourgeois family with eleven children. He decided to become a painter at a young age and enrolled at the Munich Academy, where he studied under several professors, including Albert Zimmermann and Julius Lange. Read the full biography

Franz Richard Unterberger was an artist born on 15 August 1838 in Innsbruck, Austria, son of a bourgeois family with eleven children. He decided to become a painter at a young age and enrolled at the Munich Academy, where he studied under several professors, including Albert Zimmermann and Julius Lange. Unterberger became famous for his paintings of Alpine landscapes, especially of his home region of Tirol. In 1860, he continued his studies in Düsseldorf, where he met Oswald Achenbach and Andreas Achenbach, two landscape painters who influenced him greatly. Thanks to this influence, Unterberger began to paint evocative mountain scenes of Scandinavia. He then moved to Brussels, where he lived for much of his life and where he painted rich views of the southern coast of Italy, Venice and other Mediterranean landscapes. He exhibited throughout Europe and America, gaining much success. At the end of his life, Unterberger lived in a studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he died in 1902. His works are exhibited in several museums around the world, including Amalfi, Louviers, Troyes, Venice and Melbourne.