Alfred Zoff

He decided to become an artist at an early age and, although he began by studying medicine, in 1869 he took classes at the State Drawing Academy in Graz with the landscape painter, Hermann von Königsbrunn.

He completed his studies in 1890 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, with Gustav Schönleber, who acquainted him the Barbizon school of landscape painting.

[1] From 1907, he was a Professor of landscape and still-life painting at the Academy in Graz, where he was an exponent of the Viennese style known as "Stimmungsimpressionismus [de]" (Mood Impressionism).

[1] He received numerous awards, including a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900).

[1][better source needed] In 1927, shortly before his death, he was officially granted citizenship (Bürgerrechte) by the city of Graz.