Johann Baptist Drechsler
Pioneered detailed Viennese flower painting
Johann Baptist Drechsler was an Austrian painter of flowers Drechsler was born in Vienna in 1766, the son of a porcelain painter. In 1787 he became the first professor of flower-painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where his students included Josef Nigg and Franz Xaver Petter. His style was particularly influenced by the finely detailed work of the Dutch flower-painter Jan van Huysum. He is recorded as working at the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory between 1772 and 1782. There are examples of his work in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg, and in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. He died at Vienna in 1811.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Franz Xaver Petter Student
- Johann Knapp Student
- Johann Matthias Ranftl Student
- Johann Matthias Wurzer Student
- Sebastian Wegmayr Student
- Wilhelm Kandler Student
Fellow student
Influenced by
- Jan van Huysum Influencer
Parent child
- Franz Rumpler Child
- Friedrich Zeller Child
- Hendrik Scheffer Child
- Johann Georg Bergmüller Parent
- Johann Heinrich Schönfeld Parent
- Johann Nepomuk Höchle Child
Artworks by this artist
- Blumenstillleben mit Früchten 1790
- Still life with carnations, roses, hollyhocks and other flowers in a sculpted bronze urn with butterflies in an alcove 1786
- Portret duchownego (biskupa) 1790
- A Forest Floor Still Life With Poultry Attacked By A Hawk
- Großes Blumenstillleben mit Vögeln 1799
- Still Life Of Flowers With Grapes
- A Still Life Of Roses, Tulips, Anemones, Bluebells And Other Flowers In A Vase, In A Stone Niche 1796
- Tulips, daffodils, roses and other flowers in a vase on a stone ledge with butterflies and a bird’s nest
- An Elaborate Floral Still Life with Roses, Tulips, Narcissus, Grapes and Butterflies
- A still life of flowers in a vase with butterflies 1811
- Kleines Blumenstillleben 1805
- Blumenstillleben 1786
- Still Life Of Flowers With A Bird’S Nest
- Blumenstillleben in Vase around 1805
- Still Life Of Roses, Morning Glories, Primroses, A Tulip And Other Flowers In A Glass Vase, With A Bird And Bird’s Nest 1789