Hanns Gasser, 1844 - The blind violinist - fine art print

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The modern art painting The blind violinist was made by Hanns Gasser. The version of the painting was painted with the exact size: 52,5 x 42 cm - frame dimensions: 66,5 x 56,5 x 6,5 cm. Oil on canvas was applied by the painter as the medium of the artpiece. The original artwork was inscribed with the following information: signed and dated lower center: Gasser 844th. Furthermore, this artwork belongs to the collection of Belvedere. We are delighted to mention that the public domain artpiece is included with courtesy of © Belvedere, Vienna, inventory number: 8980. Creditline of the artwork: purchase from private property, Vienna in 1993. The alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Hanns Gasser was a painter, whose artistic style can be classified as Romanticism.

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A native of Carinthia Hans Gasser was actually trained as a painter. "The Blind Fiddler" is one of the few genre pieces, he painted. the artist was known but as a sculptor. In Vienna he created among other monumental figures for the Arsenal, the City Hall, the old stock exchange, as well as grave monuments for the Central Cemetery. But Gasser's orders took him also to Budapest, Graz, Trieste, Weimar and London. Embedded in a romantic landscape, moralizing scene deals with mercy in several facets. As a literary parallel to this issue Michael Krapf called the story "The Poor Fiddler" by Franz Grillparzer. [¹] A boy leads the seated by the wayside blind man, while a girl some food for the journey in his apron and a drink from the nearby shelter in the background brings. the props of the blind in the left corner of the painting were draped as a painterly still life. The shrine on the right edge refers to the actions of the two children as obligations of Christian life. Notes: [1] Krapf, Michael Hans Gasser. The blind violinist, in: Recent Acquisitions. Master of Heiligenkreuz to Krystufek, exh. Cat. Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna 15.09.-21.11.1999 (temporary exhibition of the Austrian Gallery, 224), p 44 [Catherine Lovecký 6/2010]

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