Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern (1738–1819)

• Was a German painting-restorer, etcher and painter.
• Morgenstern was a student of his father, Johann Christoph Morgenstern.

• Already in his youth he drew horses and battle scenes.

• From 1766 he attended the Academy of the Picture Gallery in Salzdahlum, where he worked under Ludwig Wilhelm Busch.

• This path led him to Hamburg in 1768, where he restored paintings, and to Frankfurt am Main in 1769, where he found himself admitted into the workshop of Christian Georg Schütz the Elder.

• After three years in Darmstadt, he returned again to Frankfurt in 1772.

• Through his marriage to Anna Maria Alleinz, Morgenstern obtained civil rights in Frankfurt on 17 September 1776.

• His marriage produced a son, Johann Friedrich Morgenstern, born on 8 October 1777, who also became a painter.

• He died on 13 November 1819 at the age of 81.

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