# August Prinzhofer

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**August Prinzhofer** (12 September 1816 – 4 August 1885) was an Austrian painter and lithographer.

## Life

Born on 12 September 1816, in [St. Veit an der Glan](/source/St._Veit_an_der_Glan), Prinzhofer came from a long-established [Carinthian](/source/Duchy_of_Carinthia) family. He studied law in [Vienna](/source/Vienna) and [Padua](/source/Padua). He worked in a civil court in Vienna from 1844 onwards as well as a simultaneous and successful career as a portraitist, until in 1854 he gave up the law to devote himself entirely to portraiture.

Prinzhofer was one of the artists who led to the flowering of [photolithography](/source/Photolithography) in Vienna from 1830 to 1860. Others included [Joseph Kriehuber](/source/Joseph_Kriehuber), [Franz Eybl](/source/Franz_Eybl) and [Eduard Kaiser](/source/Eduard_Kaiser). His lithographs included more than 500 portraits (of subjects including [Hector Berlioz](/source/Hector_Berlioz), [Ludwig von Benedek](/source/Ludwig_von_Benedek), [Ignaz Franz Castelli](/source/Ignaz_Franz_Castelli), [Archduke John of Austria](/source/Archduke_John_of_Austria), [Lajos Kossuth](/source/Lajos_Kossuth), [Albert Lortzing](/source/Albert_Lortzing), [Alois Negrelli](/source/Alois_Negrelli), [pope Pius IX](/source/Pope_Pius_IX), [Johann Ladislaus Pyrker](/source/Johann_Ladislaus_Pyrker) and [Johann Nestroy](/source/Johann_Nestroy)). In 1861, Prinzhofer moved to Graz and dedicated himself solely to oil-on-canvas portraits and watercolour miniatures.

## Bibliography

- (in German) G. Gsodam: [Prinzhofer August.](http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl_8/284.pdf) In: *[Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950](/source/%C3%96sterreichisches_Biographisches_Lexikon_1815%E2%80%931950)* (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2, S. 284.
- (in German) Gottfried Rittershausen, *August Prinzhofer*, Walter Krieg Verlag, 1962
- (in German) August Prinzhofer. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker etc. : *Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.* Volume 27, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1933, S. 406f
- (in German) [Prinzhofer August](http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=12538&viewmode=fullscreen&scale=5&page=314) In Constantin von Wurzbach: *Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich*, 23. Volume, S. 311, Wien 1872

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