Flowers from Venice
Hans Zatzka (Wien 1859 - Wien 1945)
Lot-No. 167
Proceeds : 7.600 €
Oil/wood, 58 x 36,5 cm, lo. le. sign. H. Zatzka Roma, on the reverse inscribed 'Blumen aus Venedig'. - Austrian figure, still life and church painter, brother of the architect Ludwig Z. He studied 1877-82 at the Vienna academy among others under C. von Blaas and Ch. Griepenkerl. He created many altar paintings and church frescoes but became most popular with lovely depictions of graceful young woman, subjects reproduced in great number for bedrooms in the early 20th cent. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Hans Zatzka: Flowers from Venice
Hans Zatzka (Wien 1859 - Wien 1945)
Flowers from Venice
Lot-No. 167
Proceeds : 7.600 €
Oil/wood, 58 x 36,5 cm, lo. le. sign. H. Zatzka Roma, on the reverse inscribed 'Blumen aus Venedig'. - Austrian figure, still life and church painter, brother of the architect Ludwig Z. He studied 1877-82 at the Vienna academy among others under C. von Blaas and Ch. Griepenkerl. He created many altar paintings and church frescoes but became most popular with lovely depictions of graceful young woman, subjects reproduced in great number for bedrooms in the early 20th cent. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.