Alois Hans Schram, (Austria, Vienna 1864-1919)'Beauties of the Harvest', three maidens outside a...

Alois Hans Schram, (Austria, Vienna 1864-1919)

'Beauties of the Harvest', three maidens outside a classical style building with columns, one holding a bowl of grapes, another a sickle, the third basket, leaning against a ladder

Oil on canvas

Signed lower left

27" x 39" (68.5cm x 99cm)

In swept gilt frame.

Alois Hans Schram was born in Vienna on August 20^th. He was a painter and sculptor of historical and genre subjects, figures, landscapes and seascapes. A student at the Academy of Art in Vienna, he was awarded a silver medal in 1892. Schram’s Fischer van Erlach explains the model of the Karl Church to Emperor Karl VI, originally intended for the festival room at Vienna City Hall, was featured at the Jubilee Church and exhibited at the House of Artists in Vienna in 1908. In 1911 he produced the frieze known as Benefits of Peace, a one hundred metre allegorical depiction celebrating the blessing of peace, Civic virtues and patriotism, on the stairway at the Viennese Parliament. Other works include Apotheosis of the House of Habsburg as well as Empress Maria Theresa  for the Palace of the Council of Presidential Ministers, once located on Vienna’s famed Lord’s Lane. Schram also decorated interiors, including that of the famed Frankel Palace with Leopold Burger.