Albert lynch artist biography

Parisian painter of German-Peruvian ancestry

For the musician and Catholic priest, see Albert Edwin Lynch.

Albert Lynch (1860–1950) was a French painter of German and Peruvian ancestry.

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Biography

Alberto Fernando Lynch was born on 26 September 1860 in Gleisweiler, Kingdom of Prussia,^[1] and baptised there on 21 March 1861.^[2] His father, Diego Lynch, had been born in Chachapoyas, Peru in November 1812, the son of a family of merchants, and had moved to Paris in the late 1840s.

His mother was Adele Bertha Emma Koeffler (born 1834 or 1835),^[3] the daughter of Thomas Koeffler, a German landscape painter who was working in Paris in the 1850s. The two had married in New York on 9 May 1852.^[4]

The family returned to Paris, where Albert Lynch subsequently studied at l'É