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(5) August Anton Tischbein

(b Rostock, 9 Oct 1805; d ?Trieste, after 1867). Painter, great-nephew of (1) Johann Heinrich Tischbein I. He trained at the academies in Berlin, Dresden and Munich from 1833, after numerous trips to the Netherlands, London, Rome, Calabria, Milan and Venice. In 1839 he settled in Trieste and painted mostly genre scenes and landscapes with Bavarian and Tyrolean subjects, as well as some portraits. He published a volume of architectural views in 1831.

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