Georg Janny
Austrian landscape painter and set designer
Georg Janny was an Austrian landscape painter and set designer. He worked as a scene painter in the studios of Carlo Brioschi and Johann Kautsky, alongside Alfons Mucha, and was a member of the Dürerbund. In 1898, he participated in painting the "Eisernen Vorhang" (Iron Curtain) at the Vienna Volksoper for the 50th jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1904, he exhibited in the Austrian Pavilion at the St.Louis World's Fair with scenes from the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (now at the Technisches Museum Wien). Two years later, he designed the stage for The Queen of Sheba by Karl Goldmark, one of the most popular operas of the late 19th century. Pictures from the second and third acts have been preserved. He also painted landscapes and figures, including scenes from fairy-tales or imaginary worlds that are reminiscent of the works of Arnold Böcklin or Gustave Doré. The contents of his estate are now in the possession of the Bezirksmuseum Hernals (Hernals District Museum) in Vienna
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Artworks by this artist (19 total)
- Blick auf Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden
- Salon im Makartstil
- Dorfstraße in den Alpen
- Christkindlmarkt
- View of Kaprun
- An der Parkstiege 1922
- Landstraße mit Kornfeld und Wegkreuz
- Die Toteninsel
- Kleines Stadtpalais
- Faunen an einer Felsküste 1921
- Stift Melk
- An allegory of power 1918
- Inneres aus dem Dogenpalast 1893
- Schneeberg (mountain) seen from Semmering on a winter morning@Landscape
- Bathers in a mountain brook 1920
- Springtime on a farm
- Langkofelgruppe seen from the Pordoijoch
- Mountaineers ascending a steep rock face 1909
- Hallstädter See