Austrian Empire (1804-1867) Biedermeier
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.
Georg Emanuel Opiz was a German painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, printmaker and author of historical novels, publishing under the pseudonym Bohemius.
Opiz began his career with portraits, but from 1807 moved on to genre subjects. He became famous for his watercolors and gouaches depicting daily life in Paris during the Napoleonic I era. His series of lithographs "Cossacks in Paris", executed from life in 1814, became very famous. In 1819 he published a series of 24 color prints "Scenes of Characters from Life in Paris". In the 1820s, Opiz created a series of watercolors, presumably inspired by trips to Russia and the Ottoman Empire.