• Was an Austrian portrait and history painter.
• He is also called "Giuseppe Grassi".
• Josef Grassi was born in Vienna.
• His father, Ottilio, was a goldsmith from Udine.
• Josef studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
• He took the advice of some friends who were Polish nationalists and moved to Warsaw.
• There, he became a teacher of Teresa Jabłonowska.
• When the Kościuszko Uprising broke out in 1794, he was able to leave the battle zone through the mediation of Kościuszko, whose portrait he had painted.
• In 1799, he was appointed a Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
• From 1816 to 1821, he was in Rome, serving as the "Director of Studies for Saxon Artists in Italy".
• He received the Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Saxony from King Frederick Augustus.
• He died in Dresden, aged 80.
