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The Annunciation and the Four Prophets

1747 · St Ignatius of Loyola Church, Gyõr

religious

Paul Troger was one of the outstanding Austrian painters of the period. As compared with the German painters the colouring used by these Austrian artists is brighter, more joyful and more voluptuous. Troger decorated the monasteries of Göttweig, Melk, Altenburg and Zwettle, and he influenced Franz Anton Maulbertsch, the most gifted painter of the period.

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The Annunciation and the Four Prophets

About the Artist

Paul Troger

1698 – 1762

Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Through his fresco-work and his draughtsmanship, which adapt a vast range of Italian influences, as well as his teaching, he is one of the foremost figures of 18th-century Austrian art. After a long study-tour to Italy he became the favourite fresco painter of the Lower Austrian monasteries. In 1754-57 he became the rector of the Academy in Vienna and he influenced many important painters of the next generation, such as Maulbertsch and Mildorfer.

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