Anton Hartinger was a Viennese artist specialized in flower painting. Hartinger was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, Austria.- History :The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy by the court-painter Peter Strudl, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701 he was ennobled as Baron of the Empire...

 from 1843 to 1851 and a pioneer in the field of chromolithography

Chromolithography

Chromolithography is a method for making multi-color prints. This type of color printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and it includes all types of lithography that are printed in color. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrom is frequently used...

. Hartinger combined for his still lifes often traditional with more exotic flowers, reflecting the great upsurge in plant collecting, cultivation and botanical illustration

Botanical illustration

Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, colour, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolour paintings. These are often printed with a botanical description in book, magazines, and other media...

 taking place within the artist's lifetime. Anton Hartinger specialized in still life subjects composed of fruit and flowers.

Endlicher's Paradisus Vindobonensis

To publish the book made in collaboration with Stephan Endlicher containing handpainted prints of rare and ornamental plants investors were sought. It took from 1844 to 1860 to publish Hartinger's work in 20 installments, seldom more than one set per year. There are very few complete copies known worldwide. The collections of the Vienna Library and the British Library have complete sets of the book.

External links

• Endlicher's Paradisus Vindobonensis in the British Library catalogue