Friedrich Salzer

After becoming a widower in 1860, his father married again, to the much younger Caroline Haas, who gave birth to his half-brother, Eugen [de], a publisher of evangelical literature.

He initially worked in his father's paint factory, while taking lessons from a local artist named Karl Baumann.

His circle of friends there included Carl Ebert, Richard Zimmermann, who influenced his style, and Alexander von Kotzebue, a battle painter for whom he provided some landscape backgrounds.

[1] In 1863, he returned to Heilbronn and married Emilie von Lobstein, with whom he had four sons.

That, coupled with increasingly poor health, left him little time for painting during the last decade of his life.