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Andreas Eigner (1801–1870) who was born at Diedldorf Upper Palatinate distinguished himself as a painter and a restorer of old pictures. He successfully employed alcoholic vapours and a varnish of his own invention to protect paintings against the destructive influence of the atmosphere. He was chiefly employed in the Galleries of Munich Augsburg Stuttgart Carlsruhe Basle and Solothurn. He died at Augsburg in 1870.