Anton Hartinger – Lines and Colors

still life by Anton Hartinger
still life and botanical illustrations by Anton Hartinger

19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator.

He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted prints (“chromolithographs”) of his botanical illustrations of exotic plants in the gardens and museums of Vienna.

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