Dessau 1851 – 1937 Vienna
Darnaut studied at the Vienna Academy under Eduard von Lichtenfels and moved to Vienna permanently in 1876 where he became best known for his landscape paintings. For the Reichshaus [national pavilion] of the 1900 World Exposition in Paris Darnaut, together with Erwin Pendl, executed a huge picture of Vienna from a bird’s eye perspective. His major works include paintings acquired by the Austrian Emperor and landscape paintings for the Vienna Museum of Natural History.
Ref.: U. Thieme/F. Becker (Ed.), Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, Bd. VIII, p. 408