• Was an Austrian painter.
• Querfurt was born in Vienna. • He painted primarily soldiers and battle scenes. • He was first instructed by his father, Tobias Querfurt, a landscape and animal painter, and afterwards studied under Rugendas at Augsburg. • He painted encampments, battles, skirmishes of cavalry, and hunting subjects, in all of which he appears rather as an imitator than as an original painter. • He died at Vienna in 1761. • Next
August Querfurt, Stvanice na jelena. Stag Hunt.
Original, Kinsky Palac, Prague. Visited in 2017-2021.
