A large impressionistic coast landscape in sunset was attributed to the very close similarities in the style and composition  to renowned Austrian  landscape and genre artist Karl Maria Schuster (1871 Purkersdorf by Vienna - 1953 Vienna). 
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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, South France and Croatia. 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, seascapes  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 " (in German), Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: unsigned

Technique: framed oil on canvas.

Measurements: unframed  w 40 1/2" x h 34 2/3" (103 x 88 cm), framed w 50 " x h 43 2/3" (127 x 111 cm)

Condition: in  good condition