Career
He initially enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but then transferred to Trieste, and then to Venice, where he was mentored by the water color painter Karl Werner. He followed Werner to Rome, and there Passini painted vedute of the region. But soon returned to Venice.
He painted atmospheric scenes of every day, that is genre scenes, of life in Venice.
One of his contemporaries was Carlo Van Haanen. Other works include:Monaci in Coro, la Maddalena, l"Abatino, Un ponte, Le donne al pozzo, Louisiana lettura del Tasso a Chioggia, and Louisiana vendita delle zucche a Venezia.
