Artists

David Anthony Tauszky

American, 1878-1972

Portrait painter. Born in Cincinnati, OH on Sept. 4, 1878. Tauszky studied in NYC at the ASL and continued at Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He was well known in the East in 1922 when he moved to Los Angeles. He made many trips back to NYC to paint and exhibit. He is known by is bust of the Emperor Franz Josef in Vienna and a portrait of General G.W. Wingate

Tauszky died in Pasadena, CA on Feb. 26, 1972. Exh: Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1922-27; Stendahi Galleries (LA), 1927; Laguna Beach AA, 1920s; Pasadena Society of Artists, 1920s; Grand Central Galleries (NYC), 1928; Pasadena Art Inst., 1928 (prize); Santa Ana, 1928 (1st prize); Salmagundi Club, 1929 (prize); Allied AA, 1929; Civic Art Show (Pasadena), 1937. In; Wingate School (NYC); Denver.