Albert von Keller

3 albums/19 artworks – Albert von Keller was born on 27 April 1844 in the small Swiss town of Gais, in the canton of Appenzell, but he would spend most of his life in Munich and become one of the city’s best-loved painters. At the age of ten he moved there with his mother, and later trained at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he absorbed the technical finesse and atmospheric sensitivity that would define his work. He never chased the latest avant-garde trends. Instead, he stayed loyal to the traditions of the 19th century while quietly developing a style that felt fresh and personal. His portraits, intimate interior scenes, and psychologically charged figure studies are marked by a…

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