Martin Knoller (1725 - 1804)

After instruction from his father and Ignaz Pögl, Knoller trained with Paul Troger (1698–1762) and at the Vienna Academy. From Salzburg he went to Rome, where his teachers were Anton Raphael Mengs (1729– 1779) and Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768). In Naples, he met his future patron Count Karl von Firmian (1716–1782), nephew of the Salzburg prince-archbishop. Later, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Besides works in Rome, he painted frescos in Tyrol and Bavaria.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 100