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Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder who was born at Ehrenstetten near Freiburg in Breisgau in 1741 was at first a pupil of Rösch at Freiburg and of Ignaz Bauer at Augsburg. He afterwards visited Italy the Netherlands and Paris; and excelled as a painter of historical and genre subjects. He was a professor and director of the Gallery at Munich in 1770 and died in that city in 1813.
