SCHALLHAS, Karl Philippe
(1769, Pozsony - 1797, Wien)



Painter. Of his life we know little beyond the fact that he studied at the Vienna Academy and was active in that city. He was admitted to the school probably between 1783-1786; he had a stimulating master in Johann Christian Brand, a teacher of landscape painting who at one time had been active in Hungary. In January 1787 Schallhas shared with Anton Troger an Art School Prize, his own painting being based on a theme from Gessner's idylls. In 1790 he became a member of the Academy and in 1795 was appointed teacher in the Faculty of Landscape Painting. He died an early death in 1797 by which time he was an assistant professor under Friedrich August Brand.

Five oil paintings and about one hundred drawings survived from an oeuvre still not fully researched.



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