Carl Kronberger – also: Karl Kronberger – (* March 7, 1841 in Freistadt, Upper Austria; † October 27, 1921 in Munich) was an Austrian painter.
Carl Kronberger was born in Freistadt as son of a landlord upon March 7, 1841. 1869 he went to Munich and standard his formal training with Hermann Dyck, Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger at the Academy of Munich. Here he perfected his ability to paint the human figure and began to specialize in portrait and genre painting. He was noted, during his lifetime, for finely detailed miniature portrait paintings often featuring the head of a Tyrolean gentleman. However, he along with painted a number of ‘true’ genre paintings. These tiny masterpieces allowed the player to display his vast talent and, are even today, sought after by collectors of Academic art.
During his lifetime he exhibited a number of works at the various exhibition-halls in Europe and won medals at exhibitions in Vienna (1873) and Munich (1901). Among his exhibited works were:
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