Johann Georg Platzer (1704–1761) was a prolific Austrian
Rococo
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painter and draughtsman.
Life and career
Platzer was born in
Eppan in the
County of Tyrol
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, and came from a family of painters. He painted primarily historical and mythical scenes. The
Joanneum Alte Galerie in
Graz
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houses the largest collection of Platzer's work under a single roof. Platzer worked with his uncle as a
court painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...
in
Passau
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Passau's population is about 50,000, of whom ...
. He returned to Eppan where he continued to work until his death in 1761.
See also
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List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalism#Orientalist art, Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subj ...
References
Further reading
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1704 births
1761 deaths
People from Eppan an der Weinstraße
18th-century Austrian painters
18th-century Austrian male artists
Austrian male painters
Court painters
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni
Austrian Orientalist painters
Draughtsmen from the Holy Roman Empire
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