Hugo Darnaut

[1] His father, Michael Fix, was a court performer who went by the stage name "Darnaut".

He was raised in Graz and began by studying decorative art in Vienna with a theater painter named Heinrich Burghart, then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels.

During the early 1890s, he spent some time with Gustav Schönleber in Karlsruhe.

In 1900, he and the architecture painter, Erwin Pendl [de], created a monumental bird's-eye view of Vienna for the Exposition Universelle.

In 1925, he became an honorary member of the Technische Universität Wien and, five years later, he was named a Bürger (citizen) of Vienna.