Gallery of the Masters 
Peter Fendi
1796-1842 Austria/Biedermeier
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Brief Biography-Peter Fendi was born in Vienna in 1796, where the Academy of Fine Art admitted him in 1810. Apart from being a portraitist, he was an engraver and lithographer, designing pictures and illustrations for German history literature. He became a draughtsman for the Cabinet of Antiquities in 1818. He went to Venice in 1821, where he won a gold medal for his painting The Grotto. The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts elected him as a member in 1836. Artists of the Dutch Golden Age often influenced his genre scenes. Fendi spent his later years primarily teaching. He died in 1842. |
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Archdukes Franz
Joseph-Ferdinand
Child in
an Armchair
Family Portrait of
Empress Karoline
Filial
Devotion
Mother
and Child
Guards on
Maneuvers
Prudent
Housekeeping
Rural Scene
with Kids
Song of
the Bell
Sneaking
a Peek
Still-life
with Putti
The
Eviction
The Freezing
Brezelbub
The Poor
Officer's Widow
The
Sad Message
The
Storm
scene of
the flood
