Tags: Painter.
August von Bayer who was born at Rorschach in 1804 first studied architecture under Weinbrenner at Carlsruhe. He visited Munich and Paris and subsequently devoted himself to painting interiors of churches chapels cloisters halls &c. in which he produced very happy effects. In 1853 he was appointed conservator of the monuments and antiquities in the Grand Duchy of Baden and died at Carlsruhe in 1873 (or 1875).
