Ihre grünen Augen - a portrait of Katharina Kern von Sterzing, by Rudolph Friedrich Wasmann, 1842

 

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Rudolph Friedrich Wasmann (8 August 1805, Hamburg - 10 May 1886, Merano), German-born painter of the Biedermeier period, who spent most of his life in the region of the Tyrol that is now part of Italy. At the age of seventeen, he began an apprenticeship with the painter Christoffer Suhr. Then, after several years of study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, he spent two years in Merano. From 1832 to 1835 he lived in Rome, where he came under the influence of members of the Nazarene movement. He eventually converted to Catholicism. After six more years spent in Merano and Bolzano, where he worked as a portrait painter, he returned to Hamburg. He married in 1846 and returned once again to Merano. In addition to portraits, he produced landscapes and religiously-themed works in Nazarene style. His son was the Jesuit priest and entomologist, Erich Wasmann.