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August Maximilian Zimmermann painter and lithographer was born at Zittau in Saxony July 7 1811. His father the impresario Karl Friedrich August Zimmermann brought him up as a musician but in his leisure he practised lithography. At the age of twenty-three he abandoned music to devote himself entirely to lithography and joining his brother Albert in Munich studied drawing under his direction. He finally took to landscape painting which he practised with some success.