Landscape with Gessner's Tomb

1788 · Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

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Salomon Gessner (1730-1788) was a Swiss poet, whose "Idylls" came out in 1756, with a French edition appearing 1762. This pastoral poetry enjoyed sensational international success. Gessner described tombs set on charming, gentle landscapes.

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About the Artist

Lorenz Adolf Schönberger

1768 – 1846

Lorenz Adolf Schönberger (also Schoenberger) was an Austrian landscape painter working in the style of Claude Lorrain. After his study at the Vienna Art Academy with Johann Christian Brand, he travelled in Central Europe, lived and worked in Paris (1804), in Frankfurt am Main (1810), in Rome (1817-25), in Holland (1826) and in England (1840). His paintings are exhibited in the Belvedere Gallery, Vienna and in the city museums of Braunschweig, Darmstadt, and Speyer.

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