l´Allemand, Friedrich#
b. Hanau (Germany), May 24, 1812, d. Vienna, Sept. 20, 1866, painter of battle scenes, genre pictures and portraits; uncle of Sigmund l'Allemand. From 1826 in Vienna, studied at the Vienna Academy; 1842 in Duesseldorf and Munich. Popular among the high nobility as a painter of battle scenes, created e.g. the graphic series "Die oesterreichische Armee im Laufe zweier Jahrhunderte" ("The Austrian army over two centuries") and numerous studies of uniforms.Literature#
A. Urban, Das oe. Schlachtenbild im 19. Jh., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1988; OeBL; NDB.