Josef Abel (1764-1818)

Aliases: Joseph Abel

Professions: Painter; Etcher

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  Abel, Josef (1764 Aschach - 1818 Wien)

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Josef Abel Biography

(b Aschach, 22 Aug 1764; d Vienna, 4 Oct 1818). Austrian painter. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Jakob Matthias Schmutzer (1733–1811) from 1783. On the advice of his mentor, Heinrich Füger, Abel turned from landscape to history painting, winning a gold medal in 1794 for Daedalus and Icarus (Vienna, Akad. Bild. Kst.). He was invited to Poland in 1795 by Prince Adam Casimir Czartoryski, and he produced numerous family portraits for the prince in a variety of media. In 1797 he returned to Vienna, where he taught, as well as undertaking commissions for paintings and for prints (e.g. Portrait of the Artist’s Father , see Aurenhammer, fig. 7).

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