!!!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
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