!!!Danhauser, Josef

b. Vienna, Aug. 18, 1805, 
d. Vienna, May 4, 1845. Genre painter, portraitist and painter of 
historical scenes, son of Viennese furniture maker Joseph Ulrich  
Danhauser; studied at Vienna Academy under J. P.  Krafft, then ran his 
father's furniture workshop from 1829 to 1831, when he passed it on to 
his brothers; continued designing furniture and made significant 
contributions to Viennese style in the pre-revolutionary period; from 
1930s concentrated on naturalist genre scenes from bourgeois society. 
Teacher at the Vienna Academy, 1841/42; famous for his moralizing 
genre paintings containing hidden social criticism, as well as several 
portraits of other artists.

!Literature
J. D., exhibition catalogue, Albertina, Vienna 1983; 
OeBL; NDB.



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