Siegmund Ferdinand von Perger

Siegmund Ferdinand von Perger (1778, Wieden – 1841, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman and engraver. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and became draughtsman and painter of historical scenes on porcelain in 1798. In 1804 he married Josefa Höflinger. In 1810 he travelled in Italy. He was appointed a painter of animals at the Court in 1817 (in 1812 he had published 12 drawings of horses). Along with C. Haas he published the Gemäldegalerie art collections of the Belvedere between 1820 and 1823.