August Schaeffer von Wienwald

August Schaeffer von Wienwald (30 April 1833 – 29 November 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter and Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Biography

He was born on 30 April 1833 in Vienna. His father was a surgeon. Two of his sisters would marry painters; , also a landscape painter, and , an animal painter.

From 1852 to 1856, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with the landscape painter, Franz Steinfeld. After graduating, he undertook numerous study trips throughout southern and western Europe, notably to the North Sea, Hungary and the Alps. From 1871 to 1874, he was a secretary at the Academy's library, then served as Curator of their gallery from 1874 to 1880.