August Georg Wilhelm Pezold was a Baltic-German painter and lithographer.
Background
His father was a doctor. Both of his parents died while he was still a child and he was raised by the Rehbinder family (former patients of his father) at their estate in Udriku. From 1812 to 1814, he followed in his father"s footsteps.
Studying medicine at the University of Dorpat (Tartu).
Education
He then attended the "Domschule" (Cathedral School) in Tallinn.
Career
From 1815 to 1816, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After a year there he, Ignatius and Gustav Adolf Hippius spent two years travelling in Italy, then a year in Switzerland. After detours to Paris and London, he returned to Estonia in 1821.
He worked primarily as a portrait painter, both there and in Livonia.
Primarily Riga. He was named a "free-artist" by the University of Saint St. Petersburg in 1839. In 1842, he became one of the founders of the "Estonian Literary Society" and began teaching at the University in Saint St. Petersburg.
In addition to his portraits and some landscapes, he painted scenes of rural life and the peasantry in what later would be called the Naïve style. He has also been referred to as a practitioner of Estonian Biedermeier.
Membership
In 1854, he was appointed a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.