Art Nouveau portrait of a young lady was executed by Czech-Austrian painter Ludwig Wieden (1869 Květná, CZ - 1947 Gmunden (Upper Austria).
Roman Catholic son of the accountant in the Kvetna  glass factory Eduard Wieden and of Sophia Wieden; from 1910 married to the painter Grete Wieden-Veit, née Veit (born Vienna 1879; died ibid. 1959), who received her training in Vienna at the Strehblow painting school and in Munich, created landscapes, still lifes, posters and caricatures and was a member of the Association of Women Artists of Austria.
Ludwig  W. came to Vienna in 1885, where he attended the Graphic Teaching and Experimental Institute under Joseph Eugen Hörwarter from 1894 to 1897. From 1897 to 1899 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Siegmund L’Allemand, Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger, and from 1903 to 1905 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Ludwig von Herterich. During the First World War he was employed as a painter in the war press headquarters. In the following years he received mainly portrait commissions from high Viennese society. portraits of politicians (e.g. of Michael Hainisch, Karl Seitz, Jakob Reumann, Otto Glöckel, Moritz Graf Vetter von der Lilie) as well as portraits of people from art and culture (Wilhelm Exner, Edmund von Hellmer, Wilhelm Kienzl, Ernst Tautenhayn). For further training he traveled to Hungary, Switzerland (1921, 1925) and Norway (1928). W., titular professor from 1933, was a member of the Jungbund artists' group, from 1906 to 1939 of the Vienna Secession, from 1939 of the Society of Fine Artists of Vienna (Künstlerhaus) and from 1940 to 1945 a board member of the Economic Cooperative of Fine Artists and a member of the Association of German Fine Artists of Moravia and Silesia (deputy board member). He presented his work at exhibitions in Barcelona, Berlin, Bern, Budapest and Vienna. His works can be found in the Vienna Museum, the Municipal Gallery in Nuremberg and the Moravská galerie.

Literature: Artist lexicons by Thieme/Becker; Fuchs; Toman; monographies "Die Wiener Secession”, under Pappernigg, 1986; W. Aichelburg, Das Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861–2001, Vienna, 2003; Austrian Biographical Lexicon.

Inscriptions: signed upper right: LudWieden; on the back of the stretcher - inscribed with pencil "Wieden” .

Technique: oil on canvas, gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 24 2/3" x h 35 3/4" (62,5 x 91 cm),   framed 26 1/2" x 37 3/4" (67,5 x 96 cm)

Condition: good original condition.