Lot 151

Hugo Darnaut (1851 - 1937) CHATEAU GARDEN

Hugo Darnaut, originally Hugo Fix, was an Austrian landscape painter. His father, Michael Fix, was a court artist who performed under the stage name "Darnaut". He grew up in Graz and began studying decorative arts in Vienna with a theater painter named Heinrich Burghart, then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Thanks to the scholarship, he was able to go to Düsseldorf, where he studied with landscape painters Andreas Achenbach, Robert Meyerheim and Johannes Wortmann. In 1877 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. In 1900, he created a monumental bird's-eye view of Vienna with architecture painter Erwin Pendl for the Universelle exhibition. From 1913 to 1918 he was the president of the Vienna Association of Fine Artists.