Moritz Treuenfels

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Moritz Treuenfels (* 1847 in Breslau ; † February 10, 1881 in Rome ) was a German genre painter .

Life

Treuenfels was of Jewish descent. He married the pianist Anna Rilke around 1878, but died three years later in Rome, where the couple had moved in 1876.

Works (selection)

  • At the junk shop
  • In front of the post office
  • In the studio
  • The mendicant monk
  • Carnevale di Roma
  • En passant
  • Hard test
  • On recognition
  • The amateur
  • At holy water (Italian) watercolor

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Grosser, Anna, b. Rilke . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 842–843. - After his death in 1882, she married the writer and journalist Julius Grosser