About Hermann Beyfuss
Lived 1857 – 1898 (aged 40–41). Hermann Beyfuss was an Austrian painter, portrait painter and artist.
Hermann Beyfuss (also Beyfus; 7 May 1857 – 2 March 1898) was a painter from Austria-Hungary.
Life
Hermann Beyfuss was born in Vienna on 7 May 1857. He studied from 1874 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl and Carl Wurzinger; he also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He was active in Vienna; and in 1885 became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, where he exhibited mainly genre scenes and portraits. He died in Vienna on 2 March 1898.
Beyfusgasse Beyfusgasse , a Viennese street in Inzersdorf, Liesing, was named in 1954 after the painter. It was previously called Siedlergasse.
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Austrian painter (1855-1898)
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Hermann Beyfuss was born in 1857 in Vienna.
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Hermann Beyfuss died on 2 February 1898 in Vienna.
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Hermann Beyfuss was a painter, portrait painter and artist.
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Hermann Beyfuss was Austrian.
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