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For many years it hung unrecognized in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, but now a painting by Johann Georg Edlinger has been discovered to be a portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edlinger, (1741-1819) was a painter at the Bavarian court who specialized in portraits.

On a return journey from Frankfurt to Vienna, Mozart stopped in Munich for a week. He stayed at the Black Eagle guesthouse in Kaufinger Street. The host knew the painter Edlinger. Wolfgang Seiller, the discoverer is a descendant of the painter. Together with Rainer Michaelis the curator of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie he undertook an analysis of the painting using computer imaging technology.