Hugo Darnaut, originally Hugo Fix, (28 November 1851,

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– 9 January 1937,

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) was an Austrian landscape painter.

Biography

His father, Michael Fix, was a court performer who went by the

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"Darnaut". He was raised in

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and began by studying

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in Vienna with a theater painter named Heinrich Burghart, then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with

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. Thanks to a scholarship, he was able to go to

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, where he studied with the landscape painters

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, and . He became a member of the

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in 1877. During the early 1890s, he spent some time with

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. Following the death of

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, he took over the Schloss Plankenberg in

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, where Schindler had operated a school of landscape painting. He also organized large-scale exhibitions in Berlin, Paris and Venice, among others. In 1900, he and the architecture painter, , created a monumental bird's-eye view of Vienna for the Exposition Universelle. From 1913 to 1918, he was President of the Vienna Cooperative of Fine Artists. In 1925, he became an honorary member of the

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and, five years later, he was named a Bürger (citizen) of Vienna.

Selected paintings

Hugo Darnaut Aus einem mährischen Dorfe.jpg,

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n Village Scene Hugo Darnaut Sommerlandschaft mit Brücke.jpg, Summer Landscape
with Bridge Hugo Darnaut Waldbach mit Brücke.jpg, Forest Stream
with Bridge Hugo Darnaut Kreuzgang in der Zisterzienserabtei Millstadt 1891.jpg, Cloister at the

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Abbey in

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References

Felix Czeike (Ed.): Darnaut Hugo.
In: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1992, , * Peter Weninger, Peter Müller: ''Die Schule von Plankenberg. Emil Jakob Schindler und der österreichische Stimmungsimpressionismus.'' Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1991, P 56/57, . * *

External links

ArtNet: More works by Darnaut.
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