Rudolf Konopa was an Austrian portrait, landscape, still life and genre painter.

Rudolf Konopa was apprenticed to an industrial painter when he was fourteen. In 1881 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he initially studied for two years with Rudolf Karl Huber; then three years with Josef Mathias Trenkwald. As a result, Konopa received the Academy's master school award. He went on study trips to France, England and Italy. He was in Paris with Eugen Jettel and in Fiesole with Arnold Bocklin. From 1890 he was a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus, from 1900 to 1906 also of the Hagenbund.

From May 26, 1915 to November 1918, he worked as a war painter on the Balkans and on the Eastern Front. Several works from this period are now in the collections of the Army History Museum in Vienna. In 1938, the year he died, a commemorative exhibition was held in the Vienna Künstlerhaus .