Kuwasseg auch Kuwasegk, Josef#

Kuwasseg (also known as Kuwasegk), Josef, b. Trieste (Italy), Nov. 25, 1799, d. Graz (Styria), March 19, 1859, landscape painter, lithographer and writer. Lived in Graz from 1809, trained at the Corporate Drawing Academy (Staendische Zeichnungsakademie). Called "Styrian Alt" (after R. von Alt, the most significant Austrian painter of town views in the 19th cent.); numerous Styrian landscape paintings and town views of Graz, lithographic series "Ansichten vom Grazer Schlossberg ("Views of the Schlossberg in Graz" 1810) and "Ansichten aus der Steiermark" ("Views from Styria" (1841-1850).

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