August Robert Zimmermann (1815–1864), a

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, was born at

Zittau Zittau (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, Upper Lusatian dialect: ''Sitte''; ) is the southeasternmost city in the Germany, German state of Saxony, and belongs to the Görlitz (district), district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost Districts of Germ ...

. Among his pictures are ''The Innthal, near Kufstcin'', and a ''Waterfall'', both dated 1863. He died at

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. He was the brother of painters

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, and

Max Zimmermann August Maximilian Zimmermann, painter and lithographer, was born at Zittau, in Saxony on 7 July 1811. His father, the impresario Karl Friedrich August Zimmermann, brought him up as a musician, but in his leisure he practised lithography. At the a ...

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1815 births 1864 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters People from Zittau People from the Kingdom of Saxony {{Germany-painter-stub