Lorenzo Quaglio the Younger (19 December 1793 – 15 March 1869) was a genre painter and lithographer, born in Munich

Munich

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 to the long Italian

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 pedigree of Quaglio

Quaglio

The surname Quaglio belongs to a large family of artists, both painters, architects, and scenographers , originally from Laino, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano. They were active mainly from the 17th to 20th century, both in Italy and in Austria and Germany...

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Life

Quaglio studied under his father Joseph Quaglio and his brother Angelo Quaglio. He then went on to study at the Akademie München. He spent a few years, until 1812, working as a decorator of the court and national theaters in Munich. He spent time traveling through the Bavarian and Tirolian Alps

Alps

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. In 1812 his first lithography

Lithography

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 appeared, a study of nature. In 1820 he did a study of Bavarian folk costume. After 1834 he worked in Schloss Hohenschwangau

Schloss Hohenschwangau

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He died in Munich and is buried in the southern cemetery.

Works

Quaglio created the following works:

• Im Dorf Kochel 1848
• Bauernbursche, am Eibsee bey Garmisch 1830
• Sennbube von der Hochalpe bey Garmisch 1830
• Hüterbub mit Krax´n, bey Garmisch 1830
• Die Alpe Hammersbach mit dem Waxenstein bey Garmisch 1830
• Buckelwiesen in Krün bey Partenkirchen 1830
• Alm am Eibsee bey Grainau 1831
• Lermos in Tyrol 1837
• Wirtin in Lermoos 1839
• Auf dem Weg nach Mittenwald 1839

Campe wrote of him in 1833 the following:

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