Plumlov Palace

Ferdinand Runk was a German painter and etcher. He studied with Johann Christian Brand (1722-1795) at the Academy in Vienna. At the beginning of the 19th century he entered the Schwarzenberg service as court painter and landscape-painter. Prince Josef zu Schwarzenberg entrusted him to paint most of the family estates in Bohemia and Austria. Similarly, Prince Johann I von Liechtenstein commissioned him to make a pictorial record of his estates in Vienna, Lower Austria, Bohemia and southern Moravia.