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Franz Schütz

Painter and Draughtsman

Born
1751 in Frankfurt am Main
Died
1781 in Geneva

15 Works by Franz Schütz

Biography

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1751. Trained under his father, the famous landscape painter Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. Began his artistic career with landscape drawings from the Rhine-Main region. From 1777 travels with his patron, the Basel merchant Gedeon Burckhard, through Switzerland, impressions from which he captured in numerous drawings. Died very young in Geneva in 1781.

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