Karl Kaufmann was born in 1843 in Neplachowitz,
Austrian Silesia (now
Neplachovice, Czech Republic). He was a student at the
Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (
Franconia,
Danzig,
Königsberg) and often to Italy (
Naples, Rome,
Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice. From 1900, Kaufmann constantly lived in
Vienna. He died on 27 April 1905 in Vienna. ==Work==