Johann Anton Tischbein (1720 - 1784)

• Was a German painter and art teacher.
• He was the fourth son of the baker, Johann Heinrich Tischbein.
• Five of whose eight children became painters.
• After a short time at school, he worked as a carpenter in Frankfurt.
• Later, he went to Paris to learn the art of wallpaper painting.
• When his studies were completed, he set up a studio in Frankfurt.
• In 1749, he and his brother Johann Heinrich took a study trip to Italy.
• For many years thereafter, he created oil paintings based on the sketches and watercolors made during that trip.
• In 1764, he moved to Hamburg, opened a private art school and was married in 1766.
• Five years later, he wrote a textbook on painting which, in 1780, earned him a place as an instructor at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums.
• A street is named after him in Hamburg's Barmbek-Nord district.
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