Raffalt, Ignaz#
Raffalt, Ignaz, b. Weisskirchen in Steiermark (Styria), July 21, 1800, d. Hainbach near Vienna, July 6, 1857, landscape, genre and portrait painter, father of the painter Johann Gualbert R. (1836-1865), studied at the Vienna Academy, lived in Styria and in Carinthia where he practised art only sporadically; from 1840 in Vienna. In his early years mainly a portraitist and genre painter, later concentrated on the painting of emotionally expressive landscapes from the Austrian Alpine and Danube regions.
Literature#
S. Gierke, I. R. - Ein steir. Maler des Biedermeier, doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1964; OeBL.