Laurenz Janscha

Laurenz Janscha, originally Lovro Janša (30 June 1749, Bresnitz - 1 April 1812, Vienna) was a Slovenian-born Austrian landscape painter and engraver.

Around 1770, he was accepted as a student at a copper engraving school in Vienna, where he was trained in landscape drawing by Johann Christian Brand.

As a result, he came to focus on producing vedute of Vienna and its surroundings, many of which were engraved by Johann Ziegler.

In 1797, he had succeeded Carl Philipp Schallhas [de] as the teacher of landscape drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts.

His eldest brother, Anton, started out as a painter, but gave it up to become a beekeeper, and was a pioneer of modern apiculture.