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Johann Baptist Reiter ( - ) was an Austrian painter of the Biedermeier period known for works such as Sleeping Woman ().

Biography

His father was a master carpenter. He spent three years as an apprentice at his father's company, painting furniture, signs and crosses. Encouraged by the lithographer and art dealer, Template:Ill, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. His teachers there included Leopold Kupelwieser and Thomas Ender. After , he largely earned his living as a porcelain painter.

Probably as the result of a recommendation by Kupelweiser, he was awarded a scholarship by the Upper AustrianLandstand that enabled him to continue his studies from to During this time he also exhibited and won the Lampi-Preis for model drawing in He was married in Originally, he did genre and historical scenes, but he decided to switch to portraits and soon became so popular that he was able to purchase a large house in Vienna with a four-horse carriage and a Moor as a servant.

During the Revolution of he sided with the revolutionaries. Possibly due to the trouble this caused, his wife left him in From then until , he was a regular participant at the exhibitions of numerous Austrian art societies.

It is unclear if he was divorced or his first wife died, but he was remarried in His new wife's extravagance eventually forced him to take more orders than he could handle, as well as turn to making copies of the Old Masters. She died in , and he died the following year. He was interred at the Zentralfriedhof.

In , a major retrospective was jointly hosted by the Template:Ill and the Template:Ill. It included over works gathered from museums in Vienna and Budapest and private collections.

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