VIENNA.- During his lifetime, Josef Danhauser (1805–1845) was one of the most important artists in Vienna, and his name is inseparably linked with the epoch known today as the Biedermeier era. The summer exhibition at the Orangery presents the artist as a storyteller. His paintings grant a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of his time. Trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to be a history painter, Danhauser soon overcame the academic traditionalism to enrich his historical and religious topics with genre elements. What distinguished him most was his extraordinary ability to translate literary texts into pictorial language. Gestures, facial expressions, and telling movements are the “vehicle” of his pictorial narratives; and behind it all lie a daring use of satire and acute powers of observation. Inspired by the series of engravings by the English painter William Hogarth (1697–1764) and the Vienna street scenes