Friedrich Zeller
Austrian, 1817 - 1896
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Friedrich Zeller was an Austrian painter.
Friedrich Zeller was born in Steyr as the son of Johann Baptist Zeller. From 1832–38 he attended the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he studied landscape painting with Friedrich Gauermann. Zeller initially worked as a portrait painter in Vienna and Graz before settling in Salzburg in 1852, where he became one of the busiest painters of his time, particularly as a landscape, animal and architectural painter.
In addition to orders from the nobility, including by Archduke Ludwig Viktor, he sold paintings to art associations. On the recommendation of Sophie Fürstin von Arenberg, he finally came to the House of Arenberg in Brussels as a commissioned painter and prince tutor from the end of the 1870s . An album with views of the Arenberg estates in the Eifel, the Lower Rhine, the Ruhr area and the Emsland was created for the ducal family by 1892.