Karl Ballenberger, who was born at Ansbach in 1800, went to Munich as a stone-mason in 1831, and was there instructed in drawing by Fr. Hoffstadt, and subsequently attended the Academy. He established himself at Frankfurt, and became very intimate with Philipp Veit. He followed the romantic style of his time, and studied with the greatest perseverance old German art. Though his productions are carefully executed, his design and colouring are hard; he nevertheless, at onetime, found great encouragement. His chief paintings are the portraits of Conrad I , Louis of Bavaria , and Rupert of the Palatinate, in the Imperial Hall of the 'Römer,' at Frankfort. He etched a plate of the arms of artists. His 'Death of St. Meinrad ' has been engraved by H. Nüsser. He died at Frankfurt in 1860.
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This article incorporates text from the article "BALLENBERGER, Karl" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1889 publication now in the public domain.
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