Viktor Stauffer

Portrait of Viktor Stauffer, dated 1881, presumably a self-portrait

Viktor Stauffer (born November 20, 1852 in Vienna ; † July 27, 1934 there ) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter .

life and work

Viktor Stauffer studied philosophy at the University of Vienna , later switched to the Vienna Academy , where he became a student of Christian Griepenkerl . From 1880 Stauffer became a student of Hans Canon , whose sister Marianne he married in 1882. After Canon's death in 1885, Stauffer completed the lunettes in the Natural History Museum and the wings on the triptych for Count Wilczek at his Kreuzenstein Castle . In 1894, Stauffer also made a life-size portrait of Count Wilczek, which is now in the Army History Museum .

Furthermore, Stauffer painted a ceiling painting for the Grand Duke of Luxembourg , Wilhelm III. in his residence in Luxembourg. Stauffer occasionally painted genre pictures, in later years only portraits. In 1903 he was awarded the Great Golden State Medal and in 1917 the Commander's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order . Stauffer was a popular portrait painter among the Viennese court nobility and the upper middle class and received a correspondingly high number of commissions. He painted, among others, Minister Gustav Kálnoky , the Mayor of Vienna Eduard Uhl , the Vienna Auxiliary Bishop Hermann Zschokke , the Admiral of the Austrian Navy Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck , the Admiral and later Austro-Hungarian Navy Commander Hermann von Spaun , the Duchess of Nassau Adelheid Marie von Anhalt-Dessau , the German Emperor Wilhelm II , and Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Portrait Johann Nepomuk Count Wilczek . Oil on canvas, 1894, 190 × 90 cm. Army History Museum, Vienna.
Portrait of Adelheid Marie von Anhalt-Dessau . Oil on canvas, Hohenburg Castle

A. Nierhaus: Stauffer Viktor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 123 f. (Direct links on p. 123 , p. 124 ).
Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig, 1912.

↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.), General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present. Leipzig, 1937, XXXI, 497 f.

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personal data
SURNAME	Stauffer, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	July 27, 1934
Place of death	Vienna