Johann Georg Platzer

Artist

The Abduction of Helen (Wallace Collection)

Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium (Wellington Collection)

Name

Johann Georg Platzer

Description

Johann Georg Platzer (1704–1761) was one of the greatest painters of the Viennese late Baroque. Platzer was born in Eppan in the County of Tyrol, and came from a family of painters. From 1728, when he entered the Vienna Academy, he worked mainly in Vienna. He painted genre, historical and mythological subjects, with a high degree of finish, influenced by the Antwerp school of the seventeenth century, in particular the Francken family and Jan Brueghel.

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Artist

Art works

The Death of Cleopatra

The Abduction of Helen

Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium

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