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August Prinzhofer | |
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| Born | (1816-09-12)12 September 1816 |
| Died | 4 August 1885(1885-08-04) (aged 68) Bad Steinerhof beiKapfenberg,Austria-Hungary |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, lithographer |
August Prinzhofer (12 September 1816 – 4 August 1885) was an Austrian painter and lithographer.
Born on 12 September 1816, inSt. Veit an der Glan, Prinzhofer came from a long-establishedCarinthian family. He studied law inVienna andPadua. He worked in a civil court in Vienna from 1844 onwards as well as a simultaneous and successful career as a portraitist, until in 1854 he gave up the law to devote himself entirely to portraiture.
Prinzhofer was one of the artists who led to the flowering ofphotolithography in Vienna from 1830 to 1860. Others includedJoseph Kriehuber,Franz Eybl andEduard Kaiser. His lithographs included more than 500 portraits (of subjects includingHector Berlioz,Ludwig von Benedek,Ignaz Franz Castelli,Archduke John of Austria,Lajos Kossuth,Albert Lortzing,Alois Negrelli,pope Pius IX,Johann Ladislaus Pyrker andJohann Nestroy). In 1861, Prinzhofer moved to Graz and dedicated himself solely to oil-on-canvas portraits and watercolour miniatures.
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