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Nationality
  
Austria

Movement
  
Baroque

Period
  
Baroque

Known for
  
Painting

Name
  
Daniel Gran

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Born
  
22 May 1694 (
1694-05-22
)
Vienna

Education
  
Sebastiano Ricci (Venice, Italy) and Francesco Solimena (Naples, Italy)

Notable work
  
St Anna's Church's frescoes (Vienna), Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Prunksaal's frescoes

Died
  
April 16, 1757, Sankt Polten, Austria

Daniel Gran (22 May 1694 – 16 April 1757) was a painter born in Vienna in 1694 who died at Sankt Polten in 1757. His pictures ornament several public buildings in his native city. He was of some consideration in his time, but his works are not known outside of Austria and Germany today.

Contents

Works

Frescoes

  • Palais Schwarzenberg (Vienna)
  • Prunksaal of the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek (formerly Hofbibliothek) (Vienna)
  • Eckartsau castle
  • Pilgrimage church Sonntagberg
  • cathedral in Sankt Polten
  • Kaisersaal in Stift Klosterneuburg
  • Neues Rathaus and Landhaussaal in Brno

    • Altar paintings

  • Churches in the Stift Herzogenburg and Stift Lilienfeld
  • Parish Church of Hirschstetten
  • Cathedral in Sankt Polten
  • St Anna's church (Vienna)

    • Self-portrait in the monastery of Herzogenburg.

    References

    Daniel Gran Wikipedia
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