The Painter of Maltese Light: The Life and Legacy of Johann Schranz In the golden age of Romanticism, few artists captured the Mediterranean soul as tenderly as Johann Schranz. A German painter whose eyes were forever enchanted by the azure horizons of the Maltese archipelago, Schranz possessed a rare ability to translate the shimmering heat and salt-sprayed air into enduring oil on canvas. Born in 1794 in Regensburg, Bavaria, his art…