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Selleny, Joseph
© Copyright Joseph Selleny, engraving by J. Lechleitner Selleny, Joseph, b. Vienna-Meidling, Feb. 3, 1824, d. Vienna-Inzersdorf, May 22, 1875. Landscape painter and lithographer. Studied at the Vienna Academy, trip to Rome in 1854/55, journey around the world on board the Austrian frigate "Novara" from 1857-1859, during which he did numerous sketches of exotic subjects which he later used for his paintings; from this time marine paintings were his preference. Designs for the park of Miramar castle near Trieste and for the Wiener Stadtpark (1862) as well as mural decorations of the Imperial Villa in Bad Ischl (1873). Died in mental derangement. Literature: L. Popelka, Ein ö. Maler segelt um die Welt, 1964.
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