Johann Michael Sattler

Johann Michael Sattler ( born September 28, 1786 in Neuberg at Duke Castle, Lower Austria, † September 28, 1847 in Mattsee, Land Salzburg) was an Austrian portrait and landscape painters of the 19th century and creator of the world famous saddlery panorama.

Life

Sattler visited in 1804, the Vienna Academy under Professor Hubert Maurer and earned then as a portrait painter. In 1816 he married Mary, the foster daughter of his friend and former professor Maurer. In 1819 he came to Salzburg in 1824, he was commissioned to portray the border as indicated in Salzburg Emperor Francis I.. This was so impressed by the beauty of the city and the arts saddler, that he expressed the desire "to see Salzburg, with its romantic environment represented as a panorama ."

Johann Michael Sattler then began later that year with his preliminary sketches to the later world-famous circular picture and finished it in 1829 with the assistance of Friedrich Loos and Johann Joseph Schindler. After the completion of the city panorama, he traveled with his wife and two children until 1839 in Europe and showed it in many cities. Sattler thus contributed significantly to the discovery of the scenic attractions of the city of Salzburg in and can be regarded today as a sort of their first tourism advertisers.

Hubert Sattler's son donated the oil painting 1870, the city of Salzburg. In 1875 it was placed in a purpose-built pavilion in the Spa Gardens. Later it came Augusteum in the Salzburg Museum Carolino and was damaged in its destruction in World War II.

The city of Salzburg honored Johann Michael Sattler on May 6, 1829 to celebrate the completion of the panorama with the honorary citizenship of the city. After his death, he found his last resting place for the time being at Sebastian Cemetery, after the opening of the family vault at the Salzburg municipal cemetery he was there laid to rest.