Johann Friedrich Perlberg

Place: Nuremberg

Born: 1848

Death: 1921

Biography:

Friedrich Perlberg was a German architect and landscape painter. He was born on April 24, 1848, in Nuremberg, Germany. Perlberg studied at the Nuremberg School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Academy of Arts in Paris. He worked as a watercolorist and his romantic architectural watercolors often featured medieval persons and phantastic details. Perlberg traveled extensively throughout the Orient, where he found many motifs for his work. He was particularly known for his paintings of Nuremberg, which were often depicted in a fantastical manner. Perlberg's style was influenced by the Romantic movement and he was part of the Munich School of painting. He died on February 14, 1921, in Munich, Germany.