Anton Hans Karlinsky was an Austrian landscape and portrait painter.
Karlinsky studied at the Vienna Academy from 1887 to 1894, his teachers were Julius Victor Berger and Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Study trips took him to Germany, Holland and Italy. He lived temporarily in an artists' colony in Fahrafeld, and was also a member of the cooperative of visual artists in Vienna.

As a lieutenant in the reserve, Karlinsky was promoted to active status in August 1914 and drafted into the fighting force in the First World War. For the first three years of the war he stood on the Carpathian front without interruption . Then reported to the Austro-Hungarian War Press Headquarters , where he was accepted into the art group in July 1917 and worked on the Russian front. In the spring and autumn of 1918 Karlinsky then worked in Albania and Montenegro.