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Ludwig Passini | The pretty fruit vendor / La bella venditora di frutta


Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903) was an Austrian narrative and genre painter and printmaker.
Ludwig Passini was born on 9 July 1832 in Vienna, the son of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini - the Passini family moved to Trieste in 1850.
On 9 November 1864 Passini married Anna Warsaw (1841-1866) at Berlin, she the daughter of Robert and Mary Warschauer, the great-granddaughter of banker Joseph Mendelssohn and the great-great-granddaughter of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

The couple, who lived alternately in Berlin and Rome, had one daughter. Anna died one and a half years after the wedding. Ludwig Passini died on 6 November 1903 in Venice.


Ludwig Passini (1832, Vienna - 1903, Venezia) è stato un pittore Austriaco, ritrattista della vita veneziana, nato a Vienna e vissuto in Italia, soprattutto a Venezia.