Johann Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach (1723 – c.1786) was an Austrian painter.
The son of Johann Gottfried Auerbach, he was born at Vienna, and became, under his father's instruction, a talented painter of portraits and history. The cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna possesses an altar-piece and a ceilingpainting by him. At Hetzendorf and Innsbruck there are also examples of his art. Karl Auerbach died in Vienna in 1786 (or 1788).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Auerbach, Karl". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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- 18th-century Austrian painters
- Austrian male painters
- 1723 births
- 1780s deaths
- Artists from Vienna
- Austrian painter stubs