Georg Pezolt (also Petzoldt)
1810 – Salzburg
– 1878
Austrian draughtsman, painter, architect
and writer
Pezolt was a pupil of Johann Matthias Wurzer
(1760-1838), a portrait painter in Salzburg.
In 1827 he accompanied the English archeologist
John Molitor on his travels through Italy.
Pezolt stayed in Italy until 1837, where
he lived in Florence, Pisa, Verona, and Venice.
During his time in Italy he was mainly influenced
by the Swiss genre painter Louis Léopold Robert
(1794-1835). On a second stay in Italy, in 1840/42,
he visited Rome and Sicily.
From 1842 he lived in Salzburg permanently,
where he worked as a draughtsman, painter and
a curator of monuments. He gained much influence
on the cultural development of the city at that
time. He was a co-founder of the regional art
club and from 1865 responsible for the preservation
of the historical monuments of Salzburg.
His painting and drawing style was characterized
by his interest for landscapes, history and
buildings, always combined with a preference
for romantic genre pictures.
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