Peter Fendi

Place: Vienna

Born: 1796

Death: 1842

Biography:

Peter Fendi (4 September 1796 – 28 August 1842 ) was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period. Peter Fendi was born in Vienna on 4 September 1796 to Joseph and Elizabeth Fendi. His father was a schoolmaster. He fell from a changing table as an infa...