!!!Nigg, Josef

b. Vienna, Oct. 13, 1782, 
d. Vienna, Sept. 19, 1863, flower and porcelain painter. Studied at 
the Vienna Academy under J. B. Drechsler, between 1800 and 1843 flower 
painter with the porcelain makers  Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten in 
Vienna, 1816 was promoted to chief painter and charged with the 
artistic supervision of all flower painters; painted several oil 
paintings with flower and fruit still lifes.

!Literature
W. Mrazek, J. N. Ein Wr. Blumenmaler, in: Alte und moderne 
Kunst, 1st annual vol., no. 2, 1956; OeBL.



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