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Georg Decker
Austro-Hungarian portrait artist (1818–1894) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Georg Decker (7 December 1818 – 13 February 1894) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait artist.
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Georg Decker | |
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Born | (1818-12-07)7 December 1818 |
Died | 13 February 1894(1894-02-13) (aged 75) Vienna, Austria |
Nationality | Austro-Hungarian |
Alma mater | Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna |
Known for | Portrait art |
Awards | Knight's Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph |
Patron(s) | Franz Joseph I of Austria |
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For the German printer of this name, see Georg Decker (printer).
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Decker was born in Hungary to a German-speaking family, and grew up and made his career in Vienna, where he taught painting as well as working as a portrait and historical artist. Thanks to his teaching, he was sometimes referred to as Herr Professor Georg Decker.
Appointed as a knight of the Order of Franz Joseph,[1] Decker has been called "a renowned portraitist of Vienna's highest society".[2]