August Prinzhofer (12 September 1816 in

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– 4 August 1885 in Bad Steinerhof bei

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) was an Austrian painter and lithographer.

Life

August Prinzhofer came from a long-established

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n family and showed great talent for drawing even as a child. He studied law in Vienna and Padua. He worked in a civil court in Vienna from 1844 onwards as well as a simultaneous and successful career as a portraitist, until in 1854 he gave up the law to devote himself entirely to portraiture. Prinzhofer was one of the artists who led to the flowering of

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in Vienna from 1830 to 1860 - others included

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and Eduard Kaiser. His lithographs included more than 500 portraits (of subjects including

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, Ludwig von Benedek,

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, Albert Lortzing, Alois Negrelli,

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Johann Ladislaus Pyrker Johann Ladislaus Pyrker (von Oberwart) ''(von Felsö-Eör)'' ( hu, Oberwart, felsőőri Pyrker János László; 2 November 1772 in Nagyláng, Soponya, near Székesfehérvár, Hungary – 2 December 1847 at Vienna) was a Hungarian Cistercian abbot ...

and Johann Nestroy). In the 1850s photography was becoming ever more widespread and in 1860 the photolithograph fell out of fashion, so in 1861 Prinzhofer moved to Graz and increasingly dedicated himself solely to oil-on-canvas portraits and watercolour miniatures.

Bibliography

* G. Gsodam
Prinzhofer August.
In: '' Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950'' (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1983, , S. 284. * Gottfried Rittershausen, ''August Prinzhofer'', Walter Krieg Verlag, 1962 * August Prinzhofer. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker etc. : ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.'' Volume 27, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1933, S. 406f *
Prinzhofer August
In Constantin von Wurzbach: ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich'', 23. Volume,S. 311, Wien 1872

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1816 births 1885 deaths 19th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters Austrian lithographers Austrian watercolourists Portrait miniaturists Austrian portrait painters People from Sankt Veit an der Glan 19th-century Austrian male artists {{Austria-painter-stub