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His style was characterized by an elaborate capturing of architectural or natural features, as well as the specific quality of each place's lighting.
His career was of strong international character. Traveling through Italy he visited Rome, Florence, Turin, Milan and Verona and created memorable images of each city. From 1747 to 1758 he moved to Dresden, following an invitation of King August III of Poland. He created various paintings of the cities Dresden and PirnaPirna is a Saxon ( German) municipality in the district of Sachsische Schweiz Geography Pirna is located in the Elba mountains in the Elba valley. The nearby rivers are the Wesenitz river to the north and Gottleuba river to the south, of which flows into and their surroundings. Today, these paintings personate a memory of Dresden's beauty, which was destroyed in the bombing during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough.
His international reputation grew, and in 1758 he followed an invitation by the Empress Maria TheresaMaria Theresa ( May 13, 1717 November 29, 1780) was a Habsburg by birth and a Holy Roman Empress by marriage, Archduchess of Austria, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780. Maria has been called an " enlightened monarch", but this status is u to ViennaThis article is about the city and federal state in Austria. For other places or things called Vienna, see Vienna (disambiguation). Vienna ( German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austria's nine federal states Bundesland Wi, where he created paintings of the city's monuments. Thereafter he worked in MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se and then Dresden, again. His last stay was in WarsawWarsaw ( Polish: see also other names in full The Capital City of Warsaw Polish: Miasto Stoleczne Warszawa is the capital of Poland and its largest city. It is located on the Vistula river roughly 350 km from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian M, beginning in 1766. His paintings of Warsaw where used for rebuilding the city after its near complete destruction in World War II.