ARTIST: Franz Xaver Pieler (Austrian, German, 1876/79 - 1952)
TITLE: Still Life with Vase of Flowers
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few minor scratches/paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 20 x 16 inches / 50 x 40 cm
FRAME SIZE: 27 x 23 inches / 68 x 58 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
The painter was born in Vienna in 1876. He learned the decorative painting at the Gilder craft in Oberhollabrunn from 1891-1894. Then he worked until 1898 as a painter of rooms and in 1899 as a decorative painter. He worked in Osterode, Berlin, Magdeburg and at last back in Berlin. At the same time he qualified through self-study and evening courses in artisan schools. In 1911 he returned to Vienna and worked as a painter and restorer. After the first World War he worked as a restorer, but even with copy jobs. Until mid-20s, in his 45th year of life, he came to an independent artistic creation. His way led him through the Dutch and Viennese flower painting and unrelenting nature study to a certain autonomy in the flowers and still life painting. He worked almost exclusively with even ground colours and on self finished Surface.