This is Moritz Retzsch

Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher.

Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 below Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi, later operational autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie, among them a copy of the Sixtinian Madonna. He was made a aficionada of the Academy in 1817 and professor in 1824. The Cotta publishing home commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent. Goethe liked his work, and he illustrated works by other well-known authors, most notably Friedrich Schiller’s Lied von der Glocke (43 plates), a Shakespeare Gallery (80 plates), and Bürger’s Ballads (15 plates). He after that did oil paintings upon classical subjects, and portraits. Many of his works were created in a home in the Lößnitz, with a view of the Elbe Valley.[citation needed]

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As a winemaker, he was a fanatic of the Saxon wine attachment from 1799 onwards. Retzsch died in Oberlössnitz/Radebeul.

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