Moritz Retzsch

Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher.

He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi, later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie, among them a copy of the Sixtinian Madonna.

The Cotta publishing house commissioned illustrations for Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust (26 plates), which made him financially independent.

Many of his works were created in a house in the Lößnitz, with a view of the Elbe Valley.

[citation needed] As a winemaker, he was a member of the Saxon wine association from 1799 onwards.