Hans Makart was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and beyond.
Moritz von Schwind was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna. Schwind's genius was lyrical—he drew inspiration from chivalry, folklore, and the songs of the people. Schwind died in Pöcking in Bavaria, and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was an Austrian painter and writer. Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period.
Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473–1531) was a German painter and woodcut printmaker.
Albin Egger-Lienz was an Austrian painter known especially for rustic genre and historical paintings.
Wolfgang Hollegha is an Austrian painter.
Christian Feest, is an Austrian ethnologist and ethnohistorian.
Johannes Feest is a German penologist and sociologist of law. He studied law in Vienna (Austria) and Munich (Germany) and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of criminal law at the University of Bremen (Germany). From 1995 to 1997 he directed the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati. He has done research on the courts, police and prisons. Presently, he is primarily engaged with German prison policy. In 2019, he initiated a manifesto to abolish penitentiaries and other prisons. He is the brother of Christian Feest and Gerhard Gleich.
Fritz Schachermeyr was an Austrian historian, professor at the University of Vienna from 1952 until retirement.
Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen, also known as Carl Ferdinand von Kügelgen was a landscape and history painter, a Russian court and cabinet painter in St. Petersburg, a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. He is the grandfather of Sally von Kügelgen.
Robert Hammerstiel was an Austrian painter and engraver. His works are influenced by Serbian icon painting, wood-cut engraving and pop art. Hammerstiel was internationally recognized and received numerous awards. His home town installed a museum dedicated to his art.
Menci Clement Crnčić was a Croatian painter, printmaker, teacher and museum director. He studied painting and drawing in Vienna and Munich, and trained in graphic arts in Vienna, studying etching and engraving. He was the first artist in the Croatian graphic tradition to abandon a strictly linear style and use tonal variation to create contrasting areas of light and shade.
Julius Victor Berger was an Austrian painter who is known primarily for his genre paintings and portraits.
Franz Steinfeld was an Austrian landscape painter. He is often referred to as "The Younger", to distinguish him from his father, also named Franz (1750-1832), who was a sculptor.
Galerie nächst St. Stephan is an art gallery in Vienna, Austria that was founded by Monseigneur Otto Mauer in 1954 on Grünangergasse next to the Stephansdom, where it is still located today. Rosemarie Schwarzwälder has owned the gallery since 1987. Before that, she was the gallery’s director since 1978. Schwarzwälder has made the gallery the international renowned institution that it is today.
Gerhard Schmidt was professor of the history of art at the University of Vienna. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge 1981–82.
Gerhard Weissenbacher is an Austrian painter and art educator and the author of a two-volume Standardwerk on the architectural history of the Vienna district of Hietzing.
Feest is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gleich is a German language habitational surname. Notable people with the name include:
