Moritz Michael Daffinger

Moritz Michael Daffinger (born 25 January 1790 in Lichtental, a suburb of Vienna, † August 21, 1849 in Vienna ) was an Austrian miniature painter and sculptor.

Life

Moritz Daffinger was a son of the porcelain painter Johann Leopold Daffinger. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, was there a pupil of Heinrich Friedrich Füger and devoted himself to painting on porcelain. Since 1809 he was exclusively in portraiture, particularly concerned with the miniature painting on ivory. He was married from 1827 to Maria Theresia Smolenitz of Smolk ( 1808-1880 ).

From 1812 he worked as a portrait photographer for Prince Metternich, since 1836 major champions of the Portrait Collection of Princess Melanie Metternich. From the English portrait painter Thomas Lawrence, he was strongly influenced, which in 1815 was present on the occasion of the Congress of Vienna. After the death of his daughter in 1841 he devoted himself to painting flowers. He died in 1849 of cholera.

Moritz Michael Daffinger was so important that he influenced most of the next miniaturist in Austria as Porträtminiaturist. His oeuvre includes more than 1000 miniature portraits.

Commemoration

Daffinger was buried at the St. Marx Cemetery, which was abandoned in 1874, but as a monument to the Biedermeier period. In 1912 Daffinger mortal remains exhumed there and in a grave of honor in 1874 opened Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 14 A, number 44) was buried. On the St. Marx Cemetery, there is a set up by the Culture Department of the City of Vienna Daffinger memorial stone since 1947.

In the 20th, then 2nd district of Vienna, was first mentioned in Lehmann 1890, named a Daffingergasse at the Northwest Station. In 1895 it was renamed Rebhan alley. 1906 was named one of the leading Lothringerstraße to At Haymarket alley Daffingerstraße in the 3rd district of Vienna. As the Wiener Konzerthaus was opened on this road in 1913, they made ​​a name change to Lisztstraße. A on the site of the demolished in 1910 Heumarktkaserne of the configured extended Lisztstraße to Rennweg provided alley seemed then in 1914 as Lehmann ( new ) Daffingerstraße on.

Daffinger portrait from 1983 was mapped to the (last) 20 shilling banknote, which was circulated in early 2002 until the introduction of euro banknotes.

Works (selection)

Lieutenant Botha, miniature painting, circa 1815

Countess Karolyi Ferdinandine, watercolor on ivory, circa 1840

Napoleon Bonaparte Francis, watercolor before 1832