While still in his 20s, he became a professor of art at the Academy in Vienna. Although he had been trained by copying from old masters, he thought that copies from earlier artists shouldn't be the sum total of an art education.
Instead he had a growing belief that the craft of painting should be founded on the close study of nature.
According to Wikipedia "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."
Fortunately toward the end of his life he was invited back into the art establishment of Vienna, and received his knighthood in 1865.
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Wikipedia: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
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