Anton Faistenberger (* 1663; † 1708)

• Was an Austrian painter, draughtsman.
• He was born in Salzburg in 1663 as the son of the painter Wilhelm Faistenberger and his first wife Susanna.
• Anton Faistenberger worked mainly in Vienna and Prague.
• Before 1694 he may have been in Venice, where he befriended Johann Carl Loth.
• In 1706, Faistenberger was probably already in Prague, where he worked for Prince Adam Andreas of Liechtenstein.
• He was also commissioned by the Austrian imperial court, for example, he created the landscapes for the death chamber of Emperor Joseph I in the Vienna Hofburg.
• The staffage in his paintings was mostly executed by celebrated painters such as Franz Werner von Tamm, Karl Loth, Ferdinand de Hamilton, Johann Michael Rottmayr and Martino Altomonte.
• Anton Faistenberger's pupils included Joseph Faistenberger and Josef Orient.

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