Alfred Zoff
Alfred Zoff was an Austrian Post-Impressionist landscape painter.Biography
His father was a doctor who originally came from Carinthia. He decided to become an artist at an early age and, although he began by studying medicine, in 1869 he took classes at the State Drawing Academy in Graz with the landscape painter, Hermann von Königsbrunn.
By 1880, he had decided on art as a career and was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he studied with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. After his father's death in 1882, his mother moved to Klagenfurt and he would often visit there to paint. It remained a favorite location for the rest of his life. He also made occasional trips to Italy and Belgium.
He completed his studies in 1890 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, with Gustav Schönleber, who acquainted him the Barbizon school of landscape painting. After that, he lived in Munich and Krems an der Donau. From 1907, he was a Professor of landscape and still-life painting at the Academy in Graz, where he was an exponent of the Viennese style known as "".
He received numerous awards, including a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle. His memberships included the Künstlerhaus Wien and the Hagenbund. In 1927, shortly before his death, he was officially granted citizenship by the city of Graz.
