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PETTENKOFEN, AUGUST VON (1821-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETTENKOFEN, See also:AUGUST VON (1821-1889) , See also:Austrian painter, See also:born in See also:Vienna, was brought up on his See also:father's See also:estate in See also:Galicia. Having decided to give up the military career on which he had started, he devoted himself to See also:painting, taking for his subjects the See also:simple scenes of the See also:life on the dreary Puszta. His paintings are treasured for their See also:fine qualities of See also:colour, and for the sincerity with which the artist sets before us the uneventful See also:melancholy life of Hungarian peasants and See also:gipsies—without any theatrical pathos or forced See also:humour. He was the inventor of the Pettenkofen See also:box, an appliance for dissolving and redistributing cracked or discoloured See also:varnish without See also:friction or the dangerous use of chemicals. He died in Vienna in 1889.

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