Anton Elfinger (15 January 1821 – 19 January 1864) was an

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and

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

. Son of a pharmacist in Vienna, he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was a student of

Leopold Kupelwieser Leopold Kupelwieser (17 October 1796, Markt Piesting – 17 November 1862, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement. Life He was the son of Johann Baptist Georg Kilian Kupelwieser (1760–1813), co-owner of ...

(1796-1862). He later studied medicine, earning his medical doctorate in 1845. Afterwards he was an assistant to dermatologist

Ferdinand von Hebra Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (7 September 1816, in Brno, Moravia – 5 August 1880 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist known as the founder of the New Vienna School of Dermatology, an i ...

(1816–1880) in

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. From 1849 until 1858, he was an illustrator of medical technical literature. He was acclaimed for his skillful artistry, in particular the artwork in Hebra's ''Atlas der Hautkrankheiten'' (Atlas of Skin Diseases), of which he shared the artistic duties with Carl Heitzmann (1836–1896). Elfinger was also a highly regarded

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary an ...

, and published his work under the pseudonym "Cajetan". His illustrations consisted of a wide array of subjects, including political cartoons.

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Anton Elfinger, biographical information Medical illustrators Austrian illustrators Austrian cartoonists Austrian physicians 1821 births 1864 deaths Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni {{austria-med-bio-stub

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