Eduard Bitterlich (17 August 1833, Stupnicka, or Dubliany, Galicia, now Ukraine – 20 May 1872, Pfalzau, now portion of Pressbaum), was an Austrian artist.
Bitterlich was born in Galicia where his daddy had established himself. While he was yet young his parents moved to Vienna, with the endeavor of educating him for the civil service, but neighboring their will he entered Waldmüller’s studio, and devoted himself to miniature painting. In 1855 he went to Venice in order to copy the works of the antiquated masters. Upon his recompense to Vienna he married Marie Singer von Wyssogurski, and sharply afterwards put himself below the supervision of Rahl, whom he never afterwards left until his death. For this master he designed many fresco paintings, and sketched an immense number of small compositions, amongst them the 20 sheets for the Wanderings of the Argonauts, and the coloured sketches for the Duke of Oldenburg.
After Rahl’s death, Bitterlich’s principal work — executed in conjunction with Griepenkerl — was the design for the other Opera House. His earlier productions append the Pompeian figures in the Ypsilanti Palace, and the 20 lunettes in the banqueting hall of the Grand Hotel of Vienna, together considering the pictures for the restored castle of Duke Leopold in Hörnstein. He died at Pressbaum, near Vienna, in 1872.
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