According to Felix Kanitz he was born to a Serbian family as Danilo Petrović. Other sources state that his origin and birthplace is unclear. He was born either in
Lugoj or
Ečka. At the age of thirteen he left
Lugoj for
Timișoara, where he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the school of
Arsenije Teodorović. Teodorović was a principal of a drawing school, and through it he influenced a whole new generation of younger artists, including a few that rivaled him. One of them was Konstantin Danil. Here Konstantin Danil studied for several years, and produced, among other works, a figure of
Saint Sava which attracted much attention. The Serbian master gave every encouragement to the young Konstantin Danil for the next four years. Artists had then already started to call Konstantin Danil Grigorović, who was perpetually sketching all sorts of objects in art and in nature, by his father's name
Danil. At the age of seventeen, he left Teodorović and went to the
atelier of one of three Viennese academicians, then working in Temișvar. Danil also took lessons from itinerant portrait-painters and afterward entered as a student in the Academy of Arts in Vienna and in Munich. He also took time to travel and paint throughout
Banat and Erdelj (
Transylvania). Danil had tried his skill in every genre, including portraiture, landscape, flower-painting, scenes of modern life and figure subjects. From Munich, Danil returned to Nagybecskerek (modern-day
Zrenjanin), where he resumed the style of Teodorović, and shortly afterward Veliki Bečkerek became his permanent residence. Danil painted local nobleman Karacsony, and when Karacsony became a Viceroy of
Banat, Danil's popularity grew. Having spent much time in the military frontier, and having been with the Austrian troops in actual warfare, he made a specialty of rendering the
Military Frontier officers and border men. At the same time, he produced a series of designs illustrative of Old Testament history. From 1834 to 1873 Danil threw himself into the
Biedermeier and the sacral painting based on the school of Vienna
Nazarene movement, and became one of its regional leaders. He worked in his own
atelier at 37 Tsar Dušan Street including poet-painter
Đura Jakšić Danil was a Serbian Orthodox Christian. In 1872 his wife, Sofia Dely, died, and a year later (1873), Danil died in Nagybecskerek on 13 May. == Work ==