Art Museum Riga Bourse 176
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Scene from Friedrich Schiller's poem "The Song of the Bell" , oil on panel by Peter Fendi; Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia
Peter Fendi (1796–1842) was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period. Peter Fendi was born in Vienna on 4 September 1796 to Joseph and Elizabeth Fendi. His father was a schoolmaster. He fell from a changing table as an infant, an accident which caused irreparable damage to his spine. Fendi demonstrated a talent for drawing from childhood.
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1833
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