!!!Pettenkofen Pettenkofer, August von

b. Vienna, May 10, 1822, 
d. Vienna, March 21, 1889, painter of landscapes and illustrator. 
Student of L.  Kupelwieser at the Vienna Academy and of F.  Eybl. 
Initially a portraitist and genre painter, took part in the Hungary 
campaign in 1849 as a war painter, then regularly stayed in Szolnok 
and painted landscapes. 1852 journey to Paris, contact with the school 
of Barbizon, developed into an important pleinair painter; between 
1870 and 1880 almost annual trips to Venice. Had a lasting influence 
on Austrian landscape painting, founder of the Szolnok school of 
painting.

!Literature
A. Weixlgaertner, A. P., 2 vols., 1916; C. Strasser, 
A. von P. (1822-1889). Die Szolnoker Bilder, doctoral 
thesis, Salzburg 1983; OeBL.



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