Genre scene with a beautiful mandoline palyer was executed 1890 by German listed painter Friedrich Ernst Wolfrom (1857 Magdeburg - 1900). He studied by Jul. Huebner at the Dresden Academy , then at the Munich Academy and in 1882 - by Hans Makart in Vienna. Our work was created by him in Vienna . Since 1892 lived in Berlin. Extremely productive and easily creating, he has painted many large mythologycal decorations and allegories, as well as heroic and ideal landscapes, portraits and ideal heads, nudes , scenes from the Berlin society life. .1900 he was commissioned to paint the Bundesrat - hall of the Berlin Reichstag building. In the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum Görlitz situated two his paintings .

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999

Inscription: signed lower right and dated (18)90 .

Technique: oil on wood. Luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 6 1/3 " x h 8 2/3 " (16 x 22 cm), framed w 18 1/3 " x h 20 " (46,5 x 51 cm)

Condition: in very good condition.