Josef Hauzinger

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Josef Hauzinger: Emperor Joseph II with his sisters Maria Anna and Maria Elisabeth.

Josef Hauzinger (born May 12, 1728 in Vienna ; † August 8, 1786 there ) was an Austrian painter . He mainly created baroque church frescoes , altarpieces , history pictures and portraits and worked as a teacher at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Life

After attending the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1741, Hauzinger worked as an assistant to his famous teacher Paul Troger in his Tyrolean homeland with the ceiling frescoes in Brixen Cathedral and those in the Sebastian Church in Salzburg (not preserved). The ceiling frescoes in the parish church of St. Michael in Brixen were created independently and by Hauzinger . Back in Vienna he painted the ceiling frescoes in the Mariahilfer Church (1759/1760).

Hauzinger became a court chamber painter in 1761. After becoming a trainee at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1769, he taught history painting there from 1772 until his death as a full professor.

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