Johann Moritz Rugendas
Johann Moritz Rugendas was born on March 29, 1802. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Johann Moritz Rugendas
Johann Moritz Rugendas (29 March 1802 – 29 May 1858) was a German painter, famous in the first half of the 19th century for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas. Rugendas is considered "by far the most varied and important of the European artists to visit Latin America." He was influenced by Alexander von Humboldt.