Trailer: Anton Graff. Faces of an Epoch

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Anton Graff (1736-1813), an artist from Winterthur in Switzerland, was the most important portraitist of the German Enlightenment. Like no other painter at the time, he shaped the image of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, of poets and thinkers, and of emancipated women at the cusp of modernity. In the words of Swiss philosopher and aesthetics scholar Johann Georg Sulzer, Anton Graff's talent lay in his ability to look "into the depths of the soul".

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