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Dorner, Johann Jakob, I
(b Ehrenstetten, nr Freiburg im Breisgau, 18 July 1741; d Munich, 22 May 1813). German painter. He became a pupil of the Freiburg painter Franz Joseph Rösch (c. 1724–77) in 1753. In 1759 he moved to Augsburg to learn fresco painting from Joseph Bauer, then travelled to Venice. In 1760 he worked with Joseph Mages (1728–69) in Augsburg as a façade painter and in 1761 went to Munich, where he was employed copying the Dutch paintings at Schloss Schleissheim. Following his portrait of Elector Max III Joseph at the Lathe with Graf Salern (c. 1765; Munich, Schloss Nymphenburg), he was appointed a court painter in 1765. Between 1766 and 1769 he visited Düsseldorf and the Netherlands. After nine months at the Antwerp academy he was awarded first prize in history and genre painting. He also studied etching (1769) in Paris under Jean-Georges Wille.
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