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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.Johann Georg Zimmermann
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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.Johann Georg Zimmermann
3 Quotes & Sayings By Johann Georg Zimmermann
Johann Georg Zimmermann (28 May 1752 – 18 April 1817) was a German-Swiss painter and etcher. He was born in Weil am Rhein, Switzerland. His father was a military surgeon and moved the family to Bern in 1764. Johann Georg did not begin to study art until he was fourteen years old, and did not complete formal studies until he was twenty-one
He became a student of Johann Baptist Zimmermann, who was a leading portrait painter in Bern, and later studied under Jacob Wider (1721–1794). Zimmermann specialized in portraits and history paintings, but also painted mythological scenes, landscapes and historical scenes from the Ancient world. He also created etchings of Swiss scenery. His patrons included the Bernese patrician families of Bürgfrid von Schellenberg, Baron Julian von Steiger, Count Rudolf von Keyserlingk, the Colloredos of Biel, the Bodmer family of Basel, the von Eckartsbergen family of Schaffhausen, the von Humboldt family of Berlin, the Supreme Court at Bern, the Armenian diaspora in Zurich and other notable figures of his time. He died in Weitezier in 1817 at age 58.