This winter painting was created by listed Austrian landscape and portrait artist Max (Maximilian Friedrich) Pistorius (1894 - Vienna - 1960). Since 1927 he formed himself autodidactically as a painter. He has portraits in the Rector´s Gallery of the Technical University in Vienna and an altar painting "The Holy Theresa on the Deathbed" from 1936, in the church in Vienna´s 16th district. His landscapes and Vienna views situated in Historical Museum of Vienna and Province Museum in Linz. He created a gallery of famous austrian surgeons for Honor Hall of Chicago University .

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs " Die Österreichischen Maler", Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframe w 17 5/8" x h 19 7/8" (44,7 x 50,5 cm); framed w 20 1/4" x h 22 1/2" (51,5 x 57 cm)

Condition: in very good condition