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Copying from Category:18th-century Swiss painters to Category:18th-century Swiss male artists using Cat-a-lot

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[[File:Selbstbildnis Franz Niklaus Koenig.jpg|thumb|upright|Self-portrait (1827)]]
'''Franz Niklaus König''' (1765–1832) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[Painting|painter]] of [[genre art]] and [[Portrait painting|portraits]].

After studying under [[Marquard Wocher|Tiberius and Marquard Wocher]], [[Sigmund Freudenberger]] and [[Balthasar Anton Dunker]], he made a name for himself through dress pictures, rural genre scenes and [[Landscape painting|landscapes]]. He found success with his [[Diaphanie]]s, which were exhibited in Switzerland, Germany and France, and were seen by [[Johann Heinrich Meyer]] and [[Goethe]]. in 1797 moved he and his family into the [[Bernese Oberland]] and in 1798 he took over as captain of artillery in the battle against the [[Battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy|French invasion of Switzerland]]. He was a participant in the [[Unspunnenfest]] celebrations of 1805 and 1808.

==References==
* {{HDS|22038|author=T. Bhattacharya|date=2015}}

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