Zafaurek Gustav

Landscape, veduta and genre painter and illustrator

1841 - Vienna - 1908

He received his training at the Vienna Polytechnic Institute and at the Vienna Academy. At first he cultivated the cheerful genre as well as landscapes in oil technique, but later turned to watercolour, in which he brought it to great perfection. In his later years he painted numerous views of old Vienna. A 270 number estate with views of Viennese streets and alleys, characteristic houses and old courtyards was auctioned at the Vienna Dorotheum on 29/30 April 1909.

Lit.: H. Fuchs, Die Österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, Vol. IV, Vienna 1988, p. 144