Johann Martin Bernatz

Johann Martin Bernatz (22 March 1802 – 19 December 1878) was a German landscape artist. Born in Speyer and trained in Vienna, Austria, he spent much of his life in Munich. He accompanied an expedition to Egypt and the Holy Land in 1836, and a British embassy to Ethiopia in 1842; drawings made during both journeys were published as sets of lithographs.

Life The banquet hall in King Sahla Sellases palace, from Scenes in Aethiopia (London 1852). Colours not original. Bernatz was born in Speyer on 22 March 1802. He began his artistic education, comparatively late in life, at the Academy at Vienna. where he died on 19 December 1878.