Josef Kriehuber

Josef Kriehuber (1800–1876) is known today mainly as the most important and successful portraitist in Vienna society of his day. He created roughly 3,000 portrait lithographs of bourgeois and aristocratic clients, artists, writers, and scientists, but also members of the imperial house. Less well known is that his work also encompasses reproductions of old masters, such as Raphael and Palma Vecchio, figure studies, studies based on nature and landscape paintings in various media.