Leopold Blauensteiner
Leopold Blauensteiner (16 January 1880 – 19 February 1947) was an Austrian academic painter. Biography Blauensteiner was the son of Leopold Blauensteiner and Johanna Toscano del Banner. His father died shortly after his birth, and his mother died in 1887, leaving him an orphan. He attended the Stiftsgymnasium Melk, grammar school in Melk. As a schoolboy he worked on the restoration of the parish church of Melk. After leaving school, he spent a year as a volunteer in the army. He then began to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor Christian Griepenkerl and also studied a few terms of art history. In addition he took private lessons from Alfred Roller, who ran the magazine of the newly formed Vienna Secession, ''Ver Sacrum (magazine), Ver Sacrum'', which in 1903 and 1904 printed some coloured woodcuts by Blauensteiner. This was the first public appearance of his work. In 1904 he married Friderika Berger, who bore him three sons. In 1908, he too ...
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