Ferdinand Olivier

Place: Dessau

Born: 1785

Death: 1841

Biography:

Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Olivier (1785–1841) was a German painter associated with the Nazarene movement. Olivier was born in Dessau on 1 April 1785, to a family of Swiss-French descent. He began his artistic education in 1801 by taking drawing lessons from Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, and also studied with the woodblock printers Christian Haldenweg and Joh...