Joseph Selleny
Novara voyage watercolorist
Joseph Selleny studied under Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld at the Vienna Academy. Study journeys took him through Tyrol and Lombardy to Venice. Endowed with a scholarship from the Vienna Academy, the artist lived and worked in Rome and Naples in 1854/55. Selleny’s talent earned him the patronage of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the Emperor’s brother. Thanks to this connection he was able to circumnavigate the globe on board the Austrian frigate “Novara”, a journey which lasted from April 1857 to August 1859. During this time he produced around two thousand watercolours and studies of ethnographical and natural historical interest. In the 1860s he was a successful freelance artist and garden architect in Vienna, but he suffered from a nervous disorder, of which he died at the psychiatric hospital in Inzersdorf near Vienna at the age of fifty-one.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Thomas Ender Master
- Franz Steinfeld Master
- Gottfried Seelos Student
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist (35 total)
- Verödeter Friedhof 1847
- Maori-Dorf am Fluss Mangatawhiri, Auckland (Neuseeland) 1858
- Hof eines chinesischen Tempels in Singapur 1858
- Eingeborener von Neukaledonien 1859
- Der Tempelhain Makok auf der Halbinsel Macao 1858
- Point de Galle auf Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1858
- Das Haus des Missionars auf der Insel Puinipet (Ponape), Caroline Islands 1858
- Figurenstudien von Chinesen 2 1858
- Chinesin 1858
- Die Insel St. Paul im Indischen Ozean 1868
- Chinese 2 1858
- Figurenstudien von Chinesen 1858
- Eingeborenenfrau aus Woolongong (Wollongong), Australien 1858
- Landschaft auf der Insel Puinipet (Ponape), Caroline Islands 1858
- Straße in Madras mit einem Tempel 1858
- Palmenhain auf Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1858
- Die Insel St. Paul im Indischen Ozean
- Eingeborene der Insel Puinipet (Ponape), Caroline Islands 1858
- Weg nach dem Tor in Point de Galle auf Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1858
- Buddhistischer Tempel auf Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1858