Janscha, Laurenz#
b. Rodein bei Radmannsdorf (Slovenia), June 30, 1749, d. Vienna, April 1, 1812, landscape painter and etcher. Studied at the Vienna Academy under F. E. Weirotter and J. C. Brand, from 1808 professor at this institution. Became known mainly as a result of his veduta series "Collection de 50 vues de la ville de Vienne" (1779ff.), which he created for the Artaria publishing house together with C. Schuetz and J. A. Ziegler.
Further works#
various Austrian landscape cycles.Literature#
1000 Jahre Kunst in Krems, exhibition catalogue, Krems 1971; NDB.