!!!Fendi, Peter

b. Vienna, Sept. 4, 1796, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 28, 1842, portraitist, genre painter, 
water-colourist, lithographer and copperplate engraver. F. was a pupil 
of J. M. Fischer, H. Maurer and J. B. Lampi and studied the 
paintings of 17th century Dutch masters. From 1818 worked as a 
draughtsman and copperplate engraver for the Numismatic and Antiques 
Cabinet, and from the late 1820s focused on genre painting. one of the 
main representatives of the Old Vienna School (Altwiener Schule), F. 
was a popular children's portraitist and gave private drawing lessons 
at court and to the Viennese aristocracy. His water-colour technique 
reached a zenith during the Vienna Biedermeier era. He was the teacher 
of C.  Schindler.

!Literature
H. Adolph, P. F., doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1951; G. 
Frodl, Wr. Malerei der Biedermeierzeit, 1987; W. Koschatzky, 
P. F., 1995.



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