Laurenz Janscha, originally Lovro Janša (30 June 1749, Bresnitz - 1 April 1812,

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) was a

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n-born Austrian landscape painter and engraver.

Life and work

He was born to a farmer, Matija Janša (1683–1752), and his wife Lucia, née Debellak (1705–1781). Around 1770, he was accepted as a student at a

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school in Vienna, where he was trained in landscape drawing by

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. Later, he studied with

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. After 1780, he also worked with etching. In 1785, he worked for the Viennese publishing company,

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; producing seven watercolors for their ''Collection de 50 vues de la ville de Vienne''. As a result, he came to focus on producing

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of Vienna and its surroundings, many of which were engraved by Johann Ziegler. He created a massive

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of the city in 1803. It was initially shown at the Wurstelprater, then toured to several cities. In 1797, he had succeeded as the teacher of landscape drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1806, following the death of

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, he was appointed head of the Master Class. He was named a Professor in 1811. His eldest brother, Anton, started out as a painter, but gave it up to become a

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, and was a pioneer of modern

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Sources

* Peter Pötschner, "Janscha, Laurenz" in:

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10 (1974), pp. 339 f.
Online
* Stefan Grathoff
Laurenz Janscha
@ the Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde, University of Mainz
Biography
from the

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@ WikiSource

External links

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