Neder, Johann Michael#

b. Oberdoebling (Vienna), April 29, 1807, d. Oberdoebling, Aug. 30, 1882, painter of genre scenes and landscapes. Son of a shoe maker, completed his studies at the Vienna Academy, but worked as a shoe maker until 1934 due to lack of money and doubts about his artistic talent; F. Gauermann encouraged him to start painting again; became one of the most popular genre painters of his time; in his pictures N. portrayed the everyday life of the common people in rural Austria, in an unaffected realistic style.

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