 1832 Portrait of Franz Hanfstaengl (1804-1877) by Friedrich Düncke. Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl (b. 1 March 1804, Baiernrain bei Bad Tölz; d. 18 April 1877, Munich) was a German painter, lithographer and photographer.[1] Bad Tölz seen from the River Isar Bad Tölz is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and administrative center of the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen. ...
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Life Hanfstaengl originated from a commoner family and in 1816 came on the recommendation of the town-school-teachers into the drawing-class of the leave-day school at Munich led by Hermann Josef Mitterer. He was instructed in lithography, he had contact with Alois Senefelder and studied from 1819 to 1825 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Hanfstaengl won for himself much popularity as the portrait lithographer of Munich society, being nicknamed 'Count Litho'. In 1833 he founded in Munich a lithographic establishment of his own, which he operated until 1868, and which he later attached a Fine Art printing shop and (in 1853) a photographic workshop. Alois Senefelder (November 6, 1771 _ February 26, 1834) was a German inventor. ...
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (German: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) was founded 1808 by Maximilian I of Bavaria in Munich as the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In 1946, the Academy was merged with the schools for arts-and-crafts and...
 Detail of 1858 photograph of Franz Liszt by Franz Hanfstaengl. Between 1835 and 1852 Hanfstaengl brought out about 200 lithographic reproductions of masterworks from the Dresden picture-gallery, and published them in a portfolio. Later, he became court photographer and produced portraits of distinguished persons, amongst others of the young King Ludwig II, of Franz Liszt, Otto von Bismarck and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. This article is about the city in Germany. ...
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He influenced his brother-in-law, the Austrian physician, inventor and politician Norbert Pfretzschner senior in the evolving of the photographic dry-plate in 1866. He was married to Franziska Wegmeier (1809-1860), by whom he became the father of Edgar Hanfstaengl. Another family-member, Erwin von Hanfstaengl, in 1873 married the opera-singer Marie Schröder.[2]
Bibliography  Franz Hanfstaengl in later life. - Heß, Helmut, The publishing-house of Franz Hanfstaengl and early photographic art-reproduction. Das Kunstwerk und sein Abbild. (Akademischer Verlag, Munich 1999) ISBN 3932965353
- Gebhardt, Heinz, Franz Hanfstaengl/Von der Lithographie zur Photographie (From Lithography to Photography). (C. H. Beck, München 1984). ISBN 3406095860
Notes - ^ This article is translated from the German Wikipedia, 30 January 2008.
- ^ (Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon, 1888-90).
External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Franz Hanfstaengl - Literature of and about Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl in the Catalogue of the German National Library [1]
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