!!!Laufberger, Ferdinand b. Bohosudov, Czech Republic (then Mariaschein), Feb. 16, 1829, d. Vienna, July 16, 1881, painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Pupil of C. Ruben in Prague, became popular esp. as a draftsman (and caricaturist), later specialized in genre painting and decorative, allegorical monumental painting. From 1868 taught at the Vienna School of Arts and Craft, teacher of G. Klimt. !Works stage curtain of the Vienna Court Opera, 1869 (1945 destroyed); sketches for paintings of buildings on the Vienna Ringstrasse (Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Kunsthistorisches Museum); glass windows of the Rotunda, Vienna, 1873 (1937 destroyed); ceiling paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, from 1881. !Literature NDB. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Laufberger,_Ferdinand|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]