August Theodor Schöfft (1809 - 1888)

August received his initial training from his father, Hungarian painter Josef August Schöfft. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and the Munich Academy, travelled in Europe and spent four years in India, where he painted portraits of members of many royal houses and worked at the court of the Maharaja of Lahore. Study trips took him to Rome and Venice in 1844–1846. In 1855 he held an exhibition in the Austrian Kunstverein. In London, he presented his works together with objets d’art from his travels. In 1863 he was forced to liquidate his collection, and lived in Mexico from 1864 to 1866. He died in London in 1888, insane and in poverty.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 326