Person

Laufberger, Ferdinand Julius (16.02.1829 - 16.07.1881)

Painter and etcher in Vienna.

Laufberger received his basic artistic training at a drawing school in Prague and was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1844 and in Vienna from 1852.

From 1860 to 18 62/63 he undertook a study trip to France and Italy. After his return he not only exhibited in the academy exhibitions but also gave private lessons in drawing. Laufberger was an illustrator, cartoonist and genre painter and produced numerous larger paintings with religious content. From 1854 Laufberger worked at the Waldheim xylographic institute and on numerous illustrated publications.

In the course of the Ringstrasse extension he worked on the Votivkirche and also produced decorations for the Vienna Opera and in 1873 for the Vienna World Exhibition. Laufberger was also responsible for the decorative interior design of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry. From 1868 he was also a professor at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, where he taught until his death in 1881.

Laufberger worked together with Storck on the designs for the Gulden notes of 1880.

Lit.: R. Eitelberger, Ferdinand Laufberger (Nekrolog), Mittheilungen des k.k. Oesterreich. Museums für Kunst und Industrie. (Monatsschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe 16, 1881, pp. 401-405; Th. Frimmel, in: Kat. d. Künstler. Nachlasses v. F. L. (1882) pp. 1-11; W. Kitlitschka, Die Bildausstattung, in: Das Wiener Opernhaus, Die Wiener Ringstraße VIII, 1 (1972) pp. 380-384.

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