Genre scene in the evening interior was executed by renowned Austrian genre and landscape painter Karl Maria Schuster (1871 Purkersdorf by Vienna - 1953 Vienna). This work was exhibited in the Viennese Artist Union "Kuenstlerhaus" in 1912 (see label on the back of the frame).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 Carithia. 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 Uniojn "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 1912 lower right, on the back of the original frame - old exhibiton label of the famous Viennese Art Union "Künstlerhaus", dated 1912 (with the inventory number 1315 ).

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: unframed w 21 5/8" x h 27 1/8" (55 x 69 cm), framed w 29 1/3" x h 34 7/8" (74,5 x 88,5 cm)

Condition: in very good condition.