Edmund Mahlknecht, son of the landscape and genre painter Christoph, and brother of the portrait painter and engraver Carl Mahlknecht, studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Joseph Mößmer, Franz Steinfeld and Anton Hansch. From the middle of the 1940s, Mahlknecht participated at the monthly exhibitions of the ‘Österreichischer Kunstverein’ (Austrian Art Association) and at the annual exhibitions of the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Anna. From 1861, he was a member of the Vienna ‘Künstlerhaus’. The early works of the artist clearly show the influence of his teacher Franz Steinfeld, but it was Friedrich Gauermann's art that had a particularly strong influence on Mahlknecht, who continued the tradition of landscape painting with animal staffage into the late 19th century.
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