Eduard Kurzbauer

In 1856, he began to study lithography, but wasn't satisfied and switched to the Academy of Fine Arts where he remained until 1861, when his father was unable to continue paying his tuition and still support a large family.

This helped him obtain a position in the studios of Karl von Piloty in Munich, where he worked for two years.

Afterwards, he continued to study independently and scored his first major success in 1870 with his genre painting Die ereilten Flüchtlinge (The Refugees, Overtaken), which was purchased for the gallery of the Schloss Belvedere.

[1] This sale, the commissions that followed and the fees from several students enabled him to take a long-desired study trip to Rome and Naples.

After courageously suffering through several painful operations, he died at the age of thirty-eight, still at work, even on his death bed.