Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1750 - 1812)

• Was a German portrait painter from the Tischbein family of artists.
• He received his first lessons from his father, the set painter Johann Valentin Tischbein.
• In 1768, he went to Kassel to work in the studios of his uncle, Johann Heinrich Tischbein.
• Four years later, he took a long trip through France, ending in Paris.
• in Paris he studied with Johann Georg Wille.
• In 1777, he took a trip to Naples and Rome, where he met and worked with Jacques-Louis David.
• He returned to Germany in 1780.
• That same year, he was appointed court painter to Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont in Bad Arolsen and was later named "Council and Cabinet Painter".
• During 1780 year, he received an appointment to replace Adam Friedrich Oeser as Director of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.
• In 1806, he went to Saint Petersburg to settle the estate of his brother, Ludwig Philipp Tischbein.
• He remained there for three years to finish several lucrative commissions from the Russian aristocracy.
• His daughter, Caroline and son Carl Wilhelm also became artists.
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