Austria-Hungary (1868-1918) Biedermeier


Josef Lauer
Vienna 1818 — Vienna 28.09.1881
Josef Lauer was an Austrian painter who worked during the Biedermeier period.
Josef Lauer studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Sebastian Wegmayr, Josef Messmer, Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld. Throughout his career he devoted himself exclusively to painting flowers and fruit, becoming the first to incorporate floral still lifes into the landscape; often a forest background.
1818–1881