Facsimile colour-woudcutter, 1850s, in Vienna where he worked for 'Baders Xylographische Anstalt', after 1858, worked mainly for the catholic publisher 'Pustet und Manz', his sons Heinrich and Rudolph took over his workshop upon his death and continued producing facsilile woodcuts under the name of 'H. & R. Knöfler'
