Anton Graff
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Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss
portrait
artist
. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller
, Christoph Willibald Gluck
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Frederick the Great, Johann Gottfried Herder
and Christian Felix Weisse. His pupils included Emma Körner
, Philipp Otto Runge
and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
, Switzerland
(the house does not exist anymore). In 1753 Graff started studying painting at the art school of Johann Ulrich Schellenberg in Winterthur. After 3 years he left Winterthur for Augsburg
. There he worked with the etcher Johann Jakob Haid. However, only one year later he was forced to leave Augsburg. He was too successful. The members of the local painters guild feared his competition. With a letter of recommendation of Johann Jakob Haid, he moved to Ansbach
where he got an employment with the court painter Leonhard Schneider until 1759. Graff travelled frequently to Munich
to study the paintings in the different collections. In 1759 he went back to Augsburg and later on moved to Regensburg
. In 1765 he went back to Winterthur and Zurich. It was there where he received the invitation of Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, the newly appointed Director of the newly established Dresden Art Academy, to apply for a post at the Dresden Art Academy. Graff did so and to prove his talent he sent a self-portrait to Hagedorn to Dresden. The self-portrait arrived on January 16, 1766, in Dresden. It was so well received that only one day later Hagedorn worked out Graff’s employment contract. On April 7, 1766, Graff arrived in Dresden where he was appointed court painter and teacher for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy, a post he kept for life although he got better paid offers at other academies, among others in Berlin. In early 1788, the Prussian Minister Friedrich Anton von Heynitz made Graff the financially very attractive offer to work for the Akademie der Künste
in Berlin. On May 7, 1789, Graff informed Count Camillo Marcolini
, general director oft he Dresden Art Academy, about this. Marcolini reacted straight away. On June 20, 1789, Graff was appointed Professor for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy.
Graff did portraits of nearly 1,000 of his contemporaries and was the leading portrait painter in Germany
in the late 18th and early 19th century. Graff was also the main portrait painter of German poets between the Enlightenment
and the early Romantic periods. Many of them were also his friends, like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
whom he met in Dresden in 1768. Graff was the favourite portrait painter of the German, Russian, Polish and Baltic
nobility
. Among others he portrayed Stanislaw Kostka Potocki
. His most important clients among them were Catherine the Great of Russia
and Frederick the Great of Prussia
. His portrait of Frederick the Great is regarded as his masterpiece. The painting is exhibited at Schloss Charlottenburg. Frederick the Great never posed for Graff. However, Graff got the authorization to watch the troops parade in 1781. This was the chance for Graff to study the physiognomy of the King and this was the base to paint the best known portrait of Frederick the Great.
Graff was also very popular with the landed gentry
, diplomats, musicians and scholars. He portrayed many of them. While painting a portrait, Graff always focused the light on the person’s face. In Graff’s portraits it was always the face that got the attention and the light, except when the sitter was a lady. In that case he also focused on the lady’s décolleté. Graff was a master of light and shadow. His role model in this context was Ján Kupecký
whose works he studied in the collections of Ansbach. In comparison with the calmness of the ladies the gentlemen in his portraits often appear serious and reserved.
He also knew how to paint dresses and draperies of different materials and colours in a natural way. His role model in this field was the French court painter Hyacinthe Rigaud
. In 1765/66 Graff portrayed Elisabeth Sulzer in a blue silk dress with silver laces and fur
collar and borders.
In his early years, Graff did hardly ever paint any background details in his portraits. He usually kept the background monochrome. However, in his later years he also paid more attention to the background. Usually he painted the sitter in outdoor surroundings, as was the fashion at that time in England
. The price for a portrait by Graff was calculated by size and details of the sitter‘s clothes. That it was not always easy for Graff to portrait the famous of the time shows the remark he made while painting Friedrich Schiller
: “He cannot sit still.” Graff was much in demand. He could live a comfortable life with his income.
In 1769 Graff met Philipp Erasmus Reich, a well known bookseller and publisher in Leipzig. Reich became a good friend of Graff. He engaged him to portrait his scholar friends. On September 1771, Graff travelled to Berlin and portrayed Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
in Johann Georg Sulzer’s apartment. Lessing’s comment on his portrait was: "Do I really look that terribly nice?" In Berlin Graff also portrayed Moses Mendelssohn
and Johann Georg Sulzer
, his future father-in-law.
In his later years Graff turned to painting landscapes and developed further a sparkling manner of painting that anticipated Impressionism
. Philipp Otto Runge
and Caspar David Friedrich
got influenced by his work.
Graff was a sociable person. He cultivated friendships with many of his sitters, business partners and colleagues such as the Polish engraver Daniel Chodowiecki
, the Swiss painters Salomon Gessner and Adrian Zingg
and the Saxon engraver Johann Friedrich Bause
. Bause reproduced many of Graff's portraits as engravings. This made Graff's name and his artworks also well known within the general public.
Graff travelled quite often to Berlin
. His father-in-law, Johann Georg Sulzer
, introduced him to members of the Prussian court. He became very popular with the Prussian nobility and they were good customers of him. He never forgot how well he was received within the Prussian society. In 1778 he closed the short autobiography
with the sentence: “Berlin habe ich viel zu verdanken” (I owe Berlin much).
On October 16, 1771, Anton Graff married Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer. Graff and his wife Elisabeth had 4 children. The first daughter, Johanna Catharina Henrietta, died very early. His second son, Georg, died in 1801. In 1803 Graff underwent cataract
surgery. His wife Elisabeth died in 1812. Graff himself died of typhoid fever
in the evening of June 22, 1813, at around 8pm in Dresden
. He was 76 years old. He left his two surviving children, Caroline Susanne (she married the painter Karl Ludwig Kaaz, a pupil of Graff) and Carl Anton (he became a landscapist), a fortune of 40,000 Taler. Graff was buried in Dresden
. His tomb
does not exist anymore.
Graff was a prolific artist. He painted some 2,000 paintings and drawings. His paintings, especially the portraits, are much sought-after. Many of them are in museums and private collections in Switzerland
(Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten), Germany
(Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
), Russia
(Hermitage Museum
) and Poland
(National Museum, Warsaw). The portraits of gentlemen outnumber the portraits of ladies.
In honour of their famous citizen the Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur (BBW) (School for Vocational Training) named their building after Graff. The "Anton-Graff-Haus".
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
, Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...
, Frederick the Great, Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.-Biography:...
and Christian Felix Weisse. His pupils included Emma Körner
Emma Körner
Emma Sophie Körner was a German painter and a pupil of Anton Graff. She was the daughter of Christian Gottfried Körner and his wife Minna, who was the sister of the painter Dora Stock. Emma's brother was the poet and soldier Theodor Körner.-References:...
, Philipp Otto Runge
Philipp Otto Runge
Philipp Otto Runge was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.- Life and work :...
and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
Life and work
Anton Graff was born as the 7th child of the craftsman Ulrich Graff and Barbara Graff née Koller at Untertorgasse 8 in WinterthurWinterthur
Winterthur is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's sixth largest population with an estimate of more than 100,000 people. In the local dialect and by its inhabitants, it is usually abbreviated to Winti...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
(the house does not exist anymore). In 1753 Graff started studying painting at the art school of Johann Ulrich Schellenberg in Winterthur. After 3 years he left Winterthur for Augsburg
Augsburg
Augsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
. There he worked with the etcher Johann Jakob Haid. However, only one year later he was forced to leave Augsburg. He was too successful. The members of the local painters guild feared his competition. With a letter of recommendation of Johann Jakob Haid, he moved to Ansbach
Ansbach
Ansbach, originally Onolzbach, is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. As of 2004, its population was 40,723.Ansbach...
where he got an employment with the court painter Leonhard Schneider until 1759. Graff travelled frequently to Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
to study the paintings in the different collections. In 1759 he went back to Augsburg and later on moved to Regensburg
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
. In 1765 he went back to Winterthur and Zurich. It was there where he received the invitation of Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, the newly appointed Director of the newly established Dresden Art Academy, to apply for a post at the Dresden Art Academy. Graff did so and to prove his talent he sent a self-portrait to Hagedorn to Dresden. The self-portrait arrived on January 16, 1766, in Dresden. It was so well received that only one day later Hagedorn worked out Graff’s employment contract. On April 7, 1766, Graff arrived in Dresden where he was appointed court painter and teacher for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy, a post he kept for life although he got better paid offers at other academies, among others in Berlin. In early 1788, the Prussian Minister Friedrich Anton von Heynitz made Graff the financially very attractive offer to work for the Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
in Berlin. On May 7, 1789, Graff informed Count Camillo Marcolini
Count Camillo Marcolini
Camillo Count Marcolini-Ferretti was a minister and general director of the fine arts for the Electorate, later Kingdom of Saxony....
, general director oft he Dresden Art Academy, about this. Marcolini reacted straight away. On June 20, 1789, Graff was appointed Professor for portrait painting at the Dresden Art Academy.
Graff did portraits of nearly 1,000 of his contemporaries and was the leading portrait painter in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
in the late 18th and early 19th century. Graff was also the main portrait painter of German poets between the Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in church and state...
and the early Romantic periods. Many of them were also his friends, like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
whom he met in Dresden in 1768. Graff was the favourite portrait painter of the German, Russian, Polish and Baltic
Baltic
-Northern Europe:* The Baltic Sea* Baltic states : Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia* The Baltic region, an ambiguous term referring to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea...
nobility
Nobility
Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...
. Among others he portrayed Stanislaw Kostka Potocki
Stanislaw Kostka Potocki
Count Stanisław Kostka Potocki was a Polish noble, politician, writer, publicist, collector and patron of art.-Life:Potocki was a son of General and starost of Lwów, Eustachy Potocki and Anna Kątska, and was a brother of Ignacy Potocki...
. His most important clients among them were Catherine the Great of Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Frederick the Great of Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
. His portrait of Frederick the Great is regarded as his masterpiece. The painting is exhibited at Schloss Charlottenburg. Frederick the Great never posed for Graff. However, Graff got the authorization to watch the troops parade in 1781. This was the chance for Graff to study the physiognomy of the King and this was the base to paint the best known portrait of Frederick the Great.
Graff was also very popular with the landed gentry
Landed gentry
Landed gentry is a traditional British social class, consisting of land owners who could live entirely off rental income. Often they worked only in an administrative capacity looking after the management of their own lands....
, diplomats, musicians and scholars. He portrayed many of them. While painting a portrait, Graff always focused the light on the person’s face. In Graff’s portraits it was always the face that got the attention and the light, except when the sitter was a lady. In that case he also focused on the lady’s décolleté. Graff was a master of light and shadow. His role model in this context was Ján Kupecký
Jan Kupecký
Ján Kupecký or Jan Kupecký was a Czech and Slovak portrait painter during the baroque...
whose works he studied in the collections of Ansbach. In comparison with the calmness of the ladies the gentlemen in his portraits often appear serious and reserved.
He also knew how to paint dresses and draperies of different materials and colours in a natural way. His role model in this field was the French court painter Hyacinthe Rigaud
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Hyacinthe Rigaud was a French baroque painter of Catalan origin whose career was based in Paris.He is renowned for his portrait paintings of Louis XIV, the royalty and nobility of Europe, and members of their courts and considered one of the most notable French portraitists of the classical period...
. In 1765/66 Graff portrayed Elisabeth Sulzer in a blue silk dress with silver laces and fur
Fur
Fur is a synonym for hair, used more in reference to non-human animals, usually mammals; particularly those with extensives body hair coverage. The term is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat, also known as the "pelage". Fur is also used to refer to animal...
collar and borders.
In his early years, Graff did hardly ever paint any background details in his portraits. He usually kept the background monochrome. However, in his later years he also paid more attention to the background. Usually he painted the sitter in outdoor surroundings, as was the fashion at that time in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The price for a portrait by Graff was calculated by size and details of the sitter‘s clothes. That it was not always easy for Graff to portrait the famous of the time shows the remark he made while painting Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
: “He cannot sit still.” Graff was much in demand. He could live a comfortable life with his income.
In 1769 Graff met Philipp Erasmus Reich, a well known bookseller and publisher in Leipzig. Reich became a good friend of Graff. He engaged him to portrait his scholar friends. On September 1771, Graff travelled to Berlin and portrayed Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...
in Johann Georg Sulzer’s apartment. Lessing’s comment on his portrait was: "Do I really look that terribly nice?" In Berlin Graff also portrayed Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah is indebted...
and Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section of the Berlin Academy of Sciences....
, his future father-in-law.
In his later years Graff turned to painting landscapes and developed further a sparkling manner of painting that anticipated Impressionism
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
. Philipp Otto Runge
Philipp Otto Runge
Philipp Otto Runge was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.- Life and work :...
and Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning...
got influenced by his work.
Graff was a sociable person. He cultivated friendships with many of his sitters, business partners and colleagues such as the Polish engraver Daniel Chodowiecki
Daniel Chodowiecki
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a Polish - German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher...
, the Swiss painters Salomon Gessner and Adrian Zingg
Adrian Zingg
Adrian Zingg was a Swiss painter.-References:*This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia....
and the Saxon engraver Johann Friedrich Bause
Johann Friedrich Bause
Johann Friedrich Bause, a German engraver, was born at Halle, in Saxony, in 1738. He is stated to have learned the art of engraving without the instruction of a master, and to have formed his manner by an imitation of the admirable prints of J. G. Wille. He died at Weimar in 1814...
. Bause reproduced many of Graff's portraits as engravings. This made Graff's name and his artworks also well known within the general public.
Graff travelled quite often to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. His father-in-law, Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer
Johann Georg Sulzer was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section of the Berlin Academy of Sciences....
, introduced him to members of the Prussian court. He became very popular with the Prussian nobility and they were good customers of him. He never forgot how well he was received within the Prussian society. In 1778 he closed the short autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
with the sentence: “Berlin habe ich viel zu verdanken” (I owe Berlin much).
On October 16, 1771, Anton Graff married Elisabetha Sophie Augusta Sulzer. Graff and his wife Elisabeth had 4 children. The first daughter, Johanna Catharina Henrietta, died very early. His second son, Georg, died in 1801. In 1803 Graff underwent cataract
Cataract
A cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lens of the eye or in its envelope, varying in degree from slight to complete opacity and obstructing the passage of light...
surgery. His wife Elisabeth died in 1812. Graff himself died of typhoid fever
Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...
in the evening of June 22, 1813, at around 8pm in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
. He was 76 years old. He left his two surviving children, Caroline Susanne (she married the painter Karl Ludwig Kaaz, a pupil of Graff) and Carl Anton (he became a landscapist), a fortune of 40,000 Taler. Graff was buried in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
. His tomb
Tomb
A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes...
does not exist anymore.
Graff was a prolific artist. He painted some 2,000 paintings and drawings. His paintings, especially the portraits, are much sought-after. Many of them are in museums and private collections in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
(Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten), Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
(Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is a cultural institution in Dresden, Germany, owned by the State of Saxony. It belongs to the most renowned and oldest museum institutions in the world, originating from the collections of the Saxon electors in the 16th century .Today, the Dresden State Art...
), Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
(Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
) and Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
(National Museum, Warsaw). The portraits of gentlemen outnumber the portraits of ladies.
In honour of their famous citizen the Berufsbildungsschule Winterthur (BBW) (School for Vocational Training) named their building after Graff. The "Anton-Graff-Haus".
External links
- Works by or about Anton Graff at Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
and Google Books (scanned books)