View of interior of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice was executed in 1889 by Austrian painter Tom (Thomas) von Dreger (1868 Brno - 1948 Vienna). Studied: 1884-85, 1887-88 Austrian Academy of Fine Arts there with August Eisenmenger, Siegmund L'Allemand and Heinrich von Angeli; 1889-90 Austrian Academy of Fine Arts Venice with Eugen von Blaas and Ludwig Johann Passini; 1890-91 Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Alexander von Liezen-Mayer; 1891-99 Academy of Fine Arts Paris. Afterwards worked in Vienna. 1916-18 soldier in World War I – painted mainly religious works. Depictions (altarpieces in the Votivkirche in Vienna, 1916, and in Sacre Coeur, Preßbaum, 1924; Adoration of the Magi; Last Supper, both 1916), genre scenes (The Paint Rubber; A Romanian Beggar, both shown in the Künstlerhaus Vienna in 1912; Vienna's Centenary Laundress, 1940), and portraits of members of the imperial family, ecclesiastical dignitaries (Cardinal Piffl, 1917; Cardinal Innitzer, 1933; 1935/36; Pope Pius XI), and politicians (Dr. Ignaz Seipel, 1925; Dr. Engelbert Dollfuß, 1934; Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg and his wife, 1934; Benito Mussolini).
WORKS: INDIANAPOLIS, University of Vienna, Federal Collection. – HM. – Austrian Gallery – University, Dean's Office of the Faculty of Natural Sciences: Viktor Lang, 1917.
EXHIBITIONS: 1891-99 Paris, SAfr. / 1897 Berlin: Great Art Exhibition / 1913 Vienna, Künstlerhaus: Annual Exhibition
BIBLIOGRAPHY Thieme/Becker V.9, 1913; Vo1, 1953. Toman I, 1947; ÖBL I, 1957 (Lit.); Fuchs, Maler (19th Century) I, 1972; ÖKL V, 1979; Sturm I, 1979; Davidson II.2, 1992; Czeike II, 1993; Bénézit IV, 1999. – R. Teichl, Contemporary Austrians, W. 1951; G. Natter, The Collection of the University of Vienna, Dissertation Vienna 1988; E. Hülmbauer, Art of the 19th Century, Inventory Catalog of the Austrian Gallery, I, W. 1992. – Vienna, Austrian Gallery: Artists' Archive.
Inscription: signed and dated 1889 lower right.
Technique: oil on canvas, original period frame with hand-crafted and gilt supraporte.
Measurements: unframed w 17 1/8" x h 29 7/8" (43,5 x 76 cm); framed w 22 1/2" x h 35" (57 x 89 cm); framed including supraporte 22 1/2" x 41" (57 x 104 cm).
Condition: in good condition. |