Johann Moritz Rugendas (b. March 29, 1802, Augsburg, Germany; d. May 29, 1858), Weilheim, Germany), was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic information in several countries in the Americas, in the first half of the 19th century. Rugendas was born to the seventh generation of a family of noted painters and engravers of Augsburg (he was a grandson of Georg Philipp Rugendas, 1666-1742, a noted painter of battles), … Wikipedia
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