1696 – 1761

German painter, well-known as a painter of soldiers and battle scenes. His father, Tobias, a landscape and animal painter, was young August's first teacher; afterwards he studied under Georg Philipp Rugendas at Augsburg. He spent most of his professional career in Augsburg and Vienna Querfurt painted encampments, battles, skirmishes of cavalry, and hunting subjects, in all of which he appears rather as an imitator than as an original painter.Show more

3 artworks in collection