Anton Hartinger (6 August 1806 – 7 January 1890) was an Austrian artist who specialized in still life paintings of fruit and flowers. Hartinger was born in Vienna. He was a member of the

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from 1843 to 1851 and a pioneer in the field of

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. In his still lifes he often combined traditional with more exotic flowers, reflecting the great upsurge in plant collecting, cultivation and

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taking place within the artist's lifetime. He died in Vienna.

Botanical illustration

Endlicher's Paradisus Vindobonensis

This book contains Hartinger's hand painted prints of rare and ornamental plants. Investors had to be sought to obtain the funds necessary to produce and publish this work. The 20 installments took from 1844 to 1860 to publish. Very few complete copies are known to exist, however the Vienna Library and the British Library have complete sets of this book.

References

External links

Endlicher's Paradisus Vindobonensis in the British Library catalogue

Digitised works by or about Hartinger
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartinger, Anton 1806 births 1890 deaths 19th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters Artists from Vienna Academic staff of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 19th-century Austrian male artists