Anton Mozart

(b ?Augsburg, 1573; d Augsburg, 13 May 1625). German painter and draughtsman. The son and pupil of Christoph Mozart II (d c. 1590), a craftsman painter, he may have visited Venice and Treviso in the 1590s. The stylistic proximity to the Frankenthal school or Frederik van Valckenborch (c. 1570-1623) of his earliest landscape, the Sermon of John the Baptist (1602; Augsburg, Schaezlerpal.), is due more to common period factors than to any direct influence. In 1598 Mozart became a master in Augsburg, where he remained except for short journeys. He painted small-format cabinet pictures and repository pieces, mostly on copper or wood, occasionally on alabaster or lapis lazuli. His verified works comprise only about 25 paintings and miniatures, a similar number of drawings and a few pages for dynastic albums, often with the distinctive monogram A under M, and the date.

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