Johann Franz Kaufmann
Born in 1870.
Died in 1948.
Johann Franz Kaufmann was a painter who had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the 1920s, he travelled to the United States, where he painted portraits of political figures associated with Prohibition. From 1930 onwards, he settled in Switzerland.
Kaufmann positioned himself as a representative of academicism and also established himself as a conservative art critic.