![Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Young Peasant Woman with Three Children at the Window [1840]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3900/15045815410_cd3791a903_o.jpg)
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Vienna, January 15, 1793 - Hinterbrühl, August 23, 1865) was an Austrian painter and writer. In 1819 he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, but was in disputes with the Viennese establishment, most notably for his comments on the system of the academy, where he wanted to establish a focus of the study on nature. His views were in opposition to the official doctrines of ideal art promulgated by the Vienna Academy, and after he had published his works on art education, he was forced to retire in 1857. By 1863. He had been accepted back into the art circles of Vienna, and was knighted in 1865.
[Neue Pinakothek, Munich - Oil on canvas, 85 x 68 cm]