Hugo Darnaut (1851-1937), Austrian artist, spent his youth in Graz and apprenticed as a theater painter to the court painter Heinrich Burghart in Vienna. He then studied at the Vienna Academy under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. He then went to Düsseldorf and studied with Andreas Achenbach, Robert Meyerheim and Johannes Wortmann. In 1877 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Impressionistic depiction of a landscape with sunlit path, oil on canvas marouflaged on cardboard, signed lower left, 28 x 19 cm, framed 42 x 33 cm