Colorfully interior painting with a art lover, examining a old drawing was executed in 1930 by renowned Austrian genre and landscape painter Karl Maria Schuster (1871 Purkersdorf by Vienna - 1953 Vienna). This work was exebited at the exhibition in 1930 of Austrian Artist Union Kuenstlerhouse.  K.M. Schuster studied by Julius Berger , Leopold Carl Mueller, J.M. Trenkwald and Sigmund I´Allemand. The artist travelled for study to Egypt, America, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and South France. In the WWI he worked s a military painter. From 1928 to 1940 he lived in Carinthia at Worthersee. He was popular with landscapes from Carinthia and interior scenes. In 1929 he was awarded with Silver Medall of Vienna Art Union "Genossenschaft der bildenden Künstler ". Gallery Makow in Klagenfurt organized in 1971 his Memory exhibition. In 1946 he recieved the Golden Laurel of the Viennese Artist Union "Künstlerhaus", whose member was he from 1903.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs, Lexicon of Austrian artists, Vienna; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: signed and dated 1930 lower left, on the back of the stretcher is exhibition label of Union Künstlerhaus with the inventory number.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 33 1/4" x h 36 1/2" (84,5 x 92,5 cm), framed w 40 1/2" x h 43 1/2" (103 x 110,5 cm)

Condition: in very good condition