German, 1801–1851
Johann Christian Michel Ezdorf (1801–1851) was a German landscape painter born in Pösneck, in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. He studied landscape painting in Munich and was known for his talent in depicting gloomy forests, inspired by the works of Ruisdael and Van Everdingen. Ezdorf traveled to Norway, the North Cape, Sweden, Iceland, and England, and one of his notable works, a painting of a Forge by the side of a Waterfall, is housed in the Modern Gallery at Munich. He died in Munich in 1851.
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