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(1) Anton Faistenberger
(b Salzburg, 1663; d Vienna, 29 Feb 1708). Painter. After studying with his father, between 1680 and 1694 he visited Italy, where he encountered the landscape painting of Poussin and Salvator Rosa and met Johann Carl Loth in Venice. Subsequently he worked mainly in Vienna, probably in part for the Esterhazy family. He produced numerous imaginary and heroic landscapes, in which the figure staffages were generally painted by other artists, such as Loth, Hans Graf (1653–1710) and Jean Pierre van Bredael II (1683–1735). His works include a Mountain Landscape with Nymphs (c. 1680–90; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Alte Meister), Landscape with the Parable of the Good Samaritan (c. 1700; Nuremberg, Ger. Nmus.), Landscape after a Thunderstorm (after 1700; Vienna, Belvedere) and Classical Mountain Landscape (c. 1690–1700; U. Würzburg, Wagner-Mus.).
Part of the Faistenberger family
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