Franz Xaver Winterhalter

(1805–1873) tysk professor

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Franz Xaver Winterhalter belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in Menzenschwand and died in Frankfurt. The teachers included Joseph Karl Stieler and Peter von Cornelius. Franz Xaver Winterhalter worked in Paris, Belgium, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Karlsruhe. Wikidata associates Franz Xaver Winterhalter with academic art and Rococo Revival. The students included Carl Wahlbom, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, and Gottlieb Bodmer.

The best-known works include ‘Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting’, ‘Florinda’, ‘Portrait of Napoleon III’, and ‘Queen Victoria’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait and landscape painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Franz Xaver Winterhalter with free images. The dated works span the years 1830–1872. Works by Franz Xaver Winterhalter are held by several collections, among them Royal Collection, Musée de l'Histoire de France, Eremitaget, and Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. Wikidata links 5 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Carl Nebel, Christian Morgenstern, Baron Carlo Marochetti, Magnus von Wright, and Henry Lark Pratt.