Johann Karl Auerbach

Karl Auerbach (1723–c.1786) was an Austrian painter.

The son of Johann Gottfried Auerbach, he was born at Vienna, and became, under his father's instruction, a talented painter of portraits and history. The cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna possesses an altar-piece and a ceilingpainting by him. At Hetzendorf and Innsbruck there are also examples of his art. Karl Auerbach died in Vienna in 1786 (or 1788).

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This article incorporates text from the article "AUERBACH, Karl" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.