Hugo Darnaut - Artist Info

About Hugo Darnaut

  • Biography

    The landscapist Hugo Darnaut, actually Darnaut-Fix, a follower of Austrian Mood Impressionism, spent his youth in Graz as the son of the court actor Michael Fix, known as Darnaut. He completed an apprenticeship as a theater painter in Vienna with court theater painter Heinrich Burghart, and this was followed by training at the Vienna Academy with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (1833–1913). He studied in Düsseldorf on a stipend, at the former centre for landscape painting with Andreas Achenbach, Robert Meyerheim and Johannes Wortmann.

    In 1877 he became a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. In the 1890s, he took lessons with Gustav Schönleber in Karlsruhe. From 1893 to 1912, Darnaut ...

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