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Karl von Piloty

Born: Munich, 1 October 1826
Died: Ambach , 21 July 1886
Nationality: German (Bavarian)
Background: 

son of lithographer Ferdinand Piloty

Studies: 

with father; at Munich Academy (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 1831-40); with Nazarene Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1840-44 and 1846)

Career: 

1856 – appointed professor at Munich Academy

1860 – ennobled

1874 – appointed director of Munich Academy

Students

Hans Makart, Franz von Defregger, and Franz von Lenbach

Important Artworks: 

Thusnelda in the Triumphal Procession of Germanicus, 1875 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)