Franz Gareis

Portrait of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1801

Franz Gareis (1775–1803) was a painter born in Marienthal who studied at Dresden under Casanova. Afterwards, he went to Rome, where his picture of Orpheus in the Lower World gained him a considerable reputation. Unfortunately he died in Rome at the early age of twenty-seven.

See also

• List of German painters

Notes

This article incorporates text from the article "GAREIS, Franz" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.