Franz Biberstein
Franz Biberstein (* 1850 in Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus , Solothurn , † 1930 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was a Swiss landscape, panorama and wall painter who worked in the United States .
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He began his training with the Swiss landscape painter Johann Sütterlin .
Franz Biberstein studied since April 16, 1869 in the class of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . Dissatisfied with the prevailing academicism, he broke off his studies and continued it at the Grand Ducal Art School in Karlsruhe with Feodor Dietz .
In 1880 Biberstein began in Frankfurt am Main together with August Lohr to help the painter Louis Braun paint the panorama picture The Battle of Sedan . The panorama was for the 1883 exhibition in New Orleans .
Biberstein came to Milwaukee in 1866 to paint more panoramas for the American Panorama Company founded by William Wehner and August Lohr .
He continued working for the Panorama company Lohr & Heine and Milwaukee Panorama Co .
From 1889 to 1900 he worked with Friedrich Wilhelm Heine , George Peter and Franz Rohrbeck in San Francisco on the picture Battle of Manila . He also created sets for the city theater.
In the late 1910s, Franz Biberstein visited the high mountains of British Columbia on behalf of the Chairman of the Canadian Railways Sir Thomas Shaughnessy and created numerous landscapes there.
He also worked as a portrait painter, but he preferred the mountain landscape, which reminded him of the Swiss Alps .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biberstein, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape and panorama painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1930 |
| Place of death | Milwaukee |