Josef Danhauser

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Josef Franz Danhauser (born August 19, 1805 in Vienna ; † May 4, 1845 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist of the Biedermeier period .

Life

Josef Danhauser was the son of the furniture manufacturer and sculptor Joseph Ulrich Danhauser and his wife Johanna Lambert and was born in the house at Laimgrube No. 30. His younger brothers were Franz, Carl and Anton Danhauser.

His father gave him his first drawing lessons , from 1820 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with St. Anna and was there in history painting a student of Johann Peter Krafft . In 1826 he exhibited his first work there. Johann Ladislaus Pyrker , the Patriarch of Venice, invited Danhauser to Venice , where he could study the Italian masters, and in the same year he returned to Vienna via Trieste with Pyrker. In 1827 Danhauser stayed in Prague for a short time with his father . That year he removed the death mask from the late Ludwig van Beethoven . Pyrker, who had now become Archbishop of Erlau , summoned Danhauser in 1828, where he carried out work primarily on behalf of the Church.

In 1829 his father died and Josef Danhauser had to take over his father's furniture factory. This activity strained him so much that he was no longer artistically active for some time. Over the next few years, however, he designed furniture that set the tone in Vienna.

In 1832 Danhauser stayed again in Erlau and took up painting again. In 1836 he received the Academy Prize for the painting The Rejection of the Hagar . He now turned to genre painting , where his most important works were created. In 1838 he became a corrector for history painting at the academy and in the same year married Josephine Streit, the daughter of a doctor. They have three children together, Josef (1839), Marie (1841) and Julie (1843).

In 1841 Danhauser became professor for history painting at the academy. In 1842, however, he resigned his office to undertake a long-planned trip with the Viennese factory owner and art patron Rudolf von Arthaber . He traveled to Germany and Holland via Gastein. Josef Danhauser died of typhus in 1845 . He was buried in the former Hundsturm cemetery and after it was abandoned , he was given a grave in Vienna's central cemetery . In 1862, Danhausergasse in Vienna- Wieden (4th district) was named after the artist.

Works

Grave of Josef Danhauser in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Danhauser was a portrait , history and genre painter. His greatest importance lies in the field of genre painting , in which he can be seen alongside Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and Peter Fendi as the most important painter of the Biedermeier period in Vienna. There is a clear socially critical note in his works that did not always make him friends. His pictures have an individual touch and personal conception, and the coloristic value is also considerable.

  • Rudolf von Habsburg and the Hermit in the Chapel of Lilienfeld (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts , inv. No. 3024), 1825, oil on canvas, 72.7 × 58.8 cm
  • Wallenstein stabs himself to death in Ottokar's tent - scene from Pyrkers Rudolphias (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. No. 151.B), 1825, oil on canvas, 59 × 73.8 cm
  • Ottokar declares war on Rudolf on the tournament ground in the middle of the storm ( Wien Museum , Inv. No. 12.868), 1825, oil on canvas, 60.3 × 74.1 cm
  • The Scholar's Room of a Painter (Vienna, Belvedere , Inv. No. 2109), 1828, oil on canvas, 40 × 52 cm
  • Comical scene in a painter's studio (Vienna, Belvedere, inv. No. 2552), 1829, oil on canvas, 36.5 × 49.5 cm
  • Portrait of a boy (Wien Museum, inv.no.117.466), 1829, oil on canvas, 42 × 34.5 cm
  • Portrait of Ladislaus Pyrkers (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no. 4030), oil on paper, oval 32 × 26 cm
  • Painter's studio with Joan of Arc (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv.no. 3044), 1830, oil on canvas, 78 × 103.5 cm
  • Self-portrait (Wien Museum, inv. No. 13.940), 1830–35, oil on panel, 23.3 × 20 cm
  • The Sleeping (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Inv.No. 3051), 1831, oil on canvas, 68.5 × 51 cm
  • Ottokar's Death (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Inv.No. 3055), 1832, oil on canvas, 103.5 × 84.5 cm
  • The last fight between Rudolf and Ottokar (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, inv. No. 3021), 1832, oil on canvas, 58.5 × 69.5 cm
  • Portrait of Frau von Streit, the artist's mother-in-law (Linz, Upper Austrian State Museum , inv. No. KA 19), 1833, oil on canvas, 92 × 71.5 cm
  • Abraham casts off Hagar (Vienna, Belvedere, inv. No. 2553), 1833, oil on canvas
  • The Confession (Wien Museum, inv.no.16.698), 1834, oil on canvas, 128 × 96 cm
  • The fisherman's wife with her child (private property), 1835, oil on panel, 41 × 49 cm
  • Der rich Prasser (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.2087), 1836, oil on canvas, 85.5 × 133 cm
  • The rejected suitor (Wien Museum, inv.no.10.140), 1836, oil on panel, 63 × 48.6 cm
  • The fisherman's wife on the seashore (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.6166), 1837, oil on panel, 39.5 × 48.5 cm
  • The ophthalmologist (Wien Museum, inv.no.48.679), 1837, oil on canvas, 94 × 125 cm
  • The monastery soup (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.2088), 1838, oil on panel, 85.5 × 130 cm
  • The lottery ticket (Wien Museum, inv.no.17.187), 1838, oil on canvas, 88.5 × 71 cm
  • The opening of the will (Vienna, Belvedere, inv. No. 2086), 1839, oil on panel, 95 × 119 cm
  • The widow's penny (Salzburg, Residenzgalerie, inv. No. 595), 1839, oil on canvas, 97 × 127 cm
  • The game of chess (Vienna, Belvedere), 1839, oil on canvas, 135 × 175 cm
  • Die Mutterliebe (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.280), 1839, oil on canvas, 50.7 × 42 cm
  • Wine, women and song (Vienna, Belvedere), 1839
  • The Newspaper Readers (Vienna, Belvedere, Inv.No. 2554), 1840, oil on panel, 21 × 17 cm
  • The astronomer Karl Ludwig Edler von Littrow and his wife Auguste born. Bischoff (Wien Museum, inv.no.77.753), 1841, oil on cardboard, 50 × 38 cm
  • Die Hundekomödie (Wien Museum, inv.no.33.163), 1841, oil on panel, 60.3 × 65.8 cm
  • Reading a novel (Munich, Galerie Grünwald), 1841, oil on canvas, 63 × 78.8 cm
  • Madame Lenormand prophesies the separation from Napoleon (lost) for Empress Josephine , 1841, oil on panel, 74 × 83 cm
  • The child and his world (Wien Museum, inv.no.16.640), 1842, oil on panel, 22.6 × 29 cm
  • The Little Virtuosos (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no. 6071), 1843, oil on cardboard, 40 × 36.5 cm
  • Das ABC (Wien Museum, Inv.No. 30.846), 1843, oil on panel, 38.5 × 35.5 cm
  • The courtship (private property), 1844, oil on panel, 45 × 57 cm
  • The Gottscheer Boy (private property), 1844, oil on panel
  • Portrait of Franz von Schober (Wien Museum, inv.no.56.421), 1844, oil on panel, 16 × 13 cm
  • The repealed attachment of interest (Linz, Upper Austrian State Museum, inv. No. G 2033), 1844, oil on wood, 90 × 108 cm
  • Die Dorfpolitiker (Vienna, City Galerie), 1844, oil on panel, 36 × 40.6 cm
  • Das Stiegenweibchen (Vienna, Kunsthandlung Hassfurther), 1845, oil on panel , 42 × 33.5 cm
  • Franz Stelzhamer (Linz, Upper Austrian State Museum, Inv.No.G 681), 1845, oil on canvas, 74 × 60 cm
  • Franz Danhauser, the artist's brother (Wien Museum, inv.no.71.809), 1845, oil on cardboard, 34.3 × 27.2 cm

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personal data
SURNAME Danhauser, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danhauser, Josef Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1845
Place of death Vienna