Franz Josef Georg Clemens Maria Leopold Salvator, Prince of Altenburg (15 March 1941 – 18 August 2021) was an Austrian ceramicist and sculptor.
[3] He took study tours to foreign masters, such as in 1968 to Jean Claude de Crousaz in Geneva.
That year, he was granted an atelier (workshop) by Johannes von Hohenberg at the Gmundner Keramik [de] manufacturer, where he worked as a freelance artist until 1993.
[3] Source:[19][page needed][20] Altenburg was the seventh of nine children of Clemens Salvator, Prince of Altenburg, formerly Archduke of Austria-Tuscany, and his morganatic wife Elisabeth, Countess Rességuier de Miremont [fr],[5] paternal grandson of Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria and his wife Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and maternal grandson of Friedrich Bernard, Graf Rességuier de Miremont, and wife Christiane, Gräfin von Wolkenstein-Trostburg.
Altenburg married Christa, Baronin von Haerdtl (Sankt Veit an der Glan, 29 January 1945) in Klagenfurt on 3 May 1969.