Anton Hansch (1813 - 1876)

Hansch studied landscape painting from 1826 to 1836 with Joseph Mössmer at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1834 he undertook study trips to the Salzkammergut and Styria. Two of his landscapes gained prizes in 1838. He lost his fortune through the economic crisis, and in 1873 he was forced to sell the oil sketches intended for his private collection. His motifs of the high mountain regions were much appreciated by the imperial family and by his contemporaries. Having settled in Salzburg in 1875, he concentrated on the surroundings – Berchtesgaden, Chiemsee, Königssee and Golling waterfall – as subjects for his paintings.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: Ducke Astrid: Berchtesgaden • Watzmann, in: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.) Stadt · Land · Berg. Salzburg und seine Umgebung. Town · Landscape · Mountain. Salzburg and surroundings. Salzburg 2022, S./p. 100