Christian Georg Schütz the Elder (1718-1791)

• Was a German painter, etcher, commercial artist and draughtsman.
• Christian Georg Schütz the Elder Ä. was born on September 24, 1718 in Flörsheim am Main.
• At the age of 13 he began a four-year apprenticeship with the Frankfurt fresco and facade painter Hugo Schlegel.
• Initially a facade and decoration painter, Schütz soon specialized in landscape painting and vedute in oil.

• He went on study trips to the Rhine and Switzerland and around 1750 stayed at the royal courts in Braunschweig, Kassel and Mainz.

• From 1759 to 1762 he worked for the French city commander of Frankfurt, Count Thoranc.

• He died in Frankfurt in 1791.

• After his death, his son Johann Georg continued the workshop. 

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