Portrait of the Piano-Manufcturer Konrad Graf
by DANHAUSER, Josef Franz, Oil on wood, 82 x 63 cm
Konrad Graf (1782-1851) was one of Vienna’s most outstanding piano-manufacturers of the early nineteenth century. He owned a veritable collection of paintings and was patron of contemporary artists like Josef Danhauser, from whom he commissioned his portrait in 1840.
Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 8 minutes):
Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer, Franz Liszt’s transcription