Painting with a brushwood collector in the summer forest was executed by Franz Josef Georg Illem (1865 in Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire - 1912 in Vienna). He was an Austrian portrait, landscape and marine painter of the Düsseldorf School.

Illem studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1881/1882. His teachers there were Heinrich Lauenstein and Peter Janssen the Elder. He settled in Vienna as a painter. Illem created portraits, later also landscapes and marines with figurative staffage.

Literature :Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künsler..", Leipzig, 1999; Prof.H.Fuchs "Austrian Artists"(in German), Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period frame.

Measurements: umframed w 31 1/2" x h 22 7/8" (80 x 58 cm), framed w 34 5/8" x h 28 1/3" (93 x 72 cm) .

Condition: in very good condition, canvas professionally relined.