Moritz Daffinger

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Lithograph by Robert Theer , 1856, after a self-portrait
Daffinger's portrait of his wife Maria Theresia Smolenitz von Smolk, ca.1827

Moritz Michael Daffinger (born January 25, 1790 in Lichtental , suburb of Vienna ; † August 21, 1849 in Vienna) was an Austrian miniature painter and sculptor .

Life

Moritz Daffinger was a son of the porcelain painter Johann Leopold Daffinger . As a ten-year-old boy, Daffinger designed flower garlands for his mother, who embroidered gloves for elegant women (Pirchan, 1943). At the age of eleven he was accepted as an apprentice in the Imperial and Royal Porcelain Manufactory.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts , where he was a student of Heinrich Friedrich Füger and devoted himself to porcelain painting. From 1809 he was exclusively in the portrait subject , especially with miniature painting on ivory . From 1827 he was married to Maria Theresia Smolenitz von Smolk (1808–1880).

From 1812 he worked as a portraitist for Prince Metternich , and from 1836 head of the portrait collection of Princess Melanie von Metternich. He was strongly influenced by the English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence , who was present on the occasion of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . After the death of his daughter in 1841, he devoted himself increasingly to painting flowers. He died in 1849 of the cholera that broke out in Vienna at the time .

Moritz Michael Daffinger was so important as a portrait miniaturist that he influenced most of the following miniaturists in Austria. His complete works include more than 1000 miniature portraits.

Commemoration

Daffinger was buried in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof , which was abandoned in 1874 but was preserved as a monument to the Biedermeier period . In 1912 Daffinger's remains were exhumed there and buried in a grave of honor at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 14 A, number 44), which was opened in 1874 . A Daffinger memorial stone erected by the City of Vienna's Department of Culture has been in existence on the Sankt Marxer Friedhof since 1947 .

In the 20th, then 2nd district of Vienna , first mentioned in Lehmann in 1890, a Daffingergasse was named at the north-west station . In 1895 it was renamed Rebhanngasse . In 1906 a street leading from Lothringerstraße to Am Heumarkt was named Daffingerstraße in the 3rd district of Vienna . When the Wiener Konzerthaus opened on this street in 1913, the name was changed to Lisztstraße. A lane planned on the area of ​​the Heumarkt barracks demolished in 1910 from the planned, extended Lisztstrasse to Rennweg then appeared in 1914 in Lehmann as the (new) Daffingerstrasse.

From 1988 Daffinger's portrait was featured on the (last) 20 schilling banknote that was in circulation until the introduction of the euro banknotes in early 2002.

Moritz Daffinger's grave in Vienna's central cemetery

Works (selection)

  • 20 Schilling note with a picture of Moritz Daffinger

  • Lieutenant Botha, miniature painting, around 1815

  • Countess Ferdinandine Karolyi, watercolor on ivory, around 1840

  • Napoleon Franz Bonaparte , watercolor before 1832

  • Self-Portrait, 1840

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personal data
SURNAME Daffinger, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daffinger, Moritz Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian miniature painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1849
Place of death Vienna