Franz Zastěra

The picture shows the Klausen with the view towards Brühl near Mödling near Vienna in the late afternoon, in the background the ruins of Mödling Castle and the Hussar Temple.

Franz Zastěra (also Zastiera ) (* around 1818 in Vienna , † around 1880 in Stockerau ) was an Austrian landscape painter and engraver.

Life

Franz Zastěra exhibited oil paintings and watercolors, especially landscapes, at the St. Anna Academy exhibitions in 1835 and 1837 . He then also created engravings based on his own and other people's templates. His whereabouts were not known; pictures and engravings by the artist were found in the estate of Mrs. Schiller in Stockerau in 1890.

Works (selection)

Oil paintings

Mariahilfberg near Gutenstein
Brühl with Mödling Castle

Stitches

View of the Pottendorf Palace
Maria Theresa with children after a picture by Carl Johann Nepomuk Hemerlein

literature

Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Volume 22, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1858, p. 224.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Zastěra, Franz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1890, p. 195 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Zastěra, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zastiera, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	1880
Place of death	Stockerau