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Johann Christian Michel Ezdorf or Etzdorf (1801-1851) a German landscape painter was born at Pösneck in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. He studied landscape painting in Munich and its environs and displayed an especial talent in representing gloomy forests taking as his models the works of Ruisdael and Van Everdingen. He visited Norway the North Cape Sweden Iceland and England. One of his best paintings is in the Modern Gallery at Munich; it represents a Forge by the side of a Waterfall.