Josef Danhauser

Danhauser's works, which went largely unappreciated in his time, dealt with moralising subjects and had a clear influence of William Hogarth.

Invited by Johann Ladislaus Pyrker, patriarch of Venice, Danhauser visited Doges, where he started to study the Italian masters.

[3] After his father's death in 1829, his brothers and he managed his furniture factory during the Biedermeier movement, being the precursors of modern design.

In 1833, Danhauser responded to a second invitation from Eger's archbishop, and he painted The martyr of Saint John for a new basilica in the city, and he received the Vienna Academy prize for his picture Die Verstoßung der Hagar, and he specialised in Genre works.

In 1838, he was appointed vice-rector of the Academy and married Josephine Streit, who was the daughter of a physician and with whom he had three children, Josef, Marie and Julie, born in 1839, 1841 and 1843 respectively.

A 19th century portrait of Danhauser
Komische Szene in einem Maleratelier (1829)
Die Mutterliebe (1839), oil on canvas
Die Mutterliebe (1839)
Franz Liszt Fantasizing at the Piano , an 1840 portrait by Danhauser and commissioned by Conrad Graf featuring an imagined gathering, including (sitting) Alfred de Musset or Alexandre Dumas, père , George Sand , Franz Liszt , Marie d'Agoult , and (standing) Hector Berlioz or Victor Hugo , Niccolò Paganini , Gioachino Rossini , a bust of Beethoven on the Graf grand piano, a portrait of Byron on the wall, and a statue of Joan of Arc on the far left. The portrait is now housed at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Berlin . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
Die Frau vom Meer (1840)