Friedrich Mosbrugger

Friedrich Mosbrugger, also known as Fritz Moosbrugger (19 September 1804, in Konstanz – 17 October 1830, in Saint Petersburg) was a German portrait and genre painter in the Realistic style.

He received his first lessons from his father and another painter from Konstanz, Marie Ellenrieder,[1] then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, with Johann Peter von Langer[2] After displaying some paintings at an exhibition in Karlsruhe in 1827, he followed his friend, the architect Friedrich Eisenlohr, to Italy and became a part of the German circle of artists resident in Rome.

With a letter of recommendation to Tsar Nicholas I from William I of Württemberg, he embarked on a trip to Russia.

[1] He took passage on a merchant vessel at Lübeck, as land travel through Russia would have been difficult and circuitous at that time.

He remained sick upon his arrival and languished for a week without care, until he was visited by an old friend, Paul Emil Jacobs.