ATTRIBUTED TO EDUARD VEITH (AUSTRIAN 1858 - 1925), MELANCHOLIE, STUDY OF MAGDA GRASMAYR (NEE MAUTNNE

oil on board, inscribed verso framed image size 45cm x 34cm, overall size 51cm x 40cm Note: Eduard Veith was born in Neutitschein, Moravia (today’s Nový Ji?ín, Czech Republic) in 1856, and after his apprenticeship as a painter worked in his father’s business, where he was commissioned with extensive painting work in churches and public buildings. In 1873, he began his training at the Royal and Imperial School of Arts and Crafts of the Royal and Imperial Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (today’s University of Applied Arts Vienna), where, like Gustav Klimt, he was a pupil of Ferdinand Laufenberg. He completed his education with a study trip to Paris. After his return, he taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna and undertook many journeys, to Trieste and Venice, as well as to Tunisia, Morocco, Belgium and repeatedly to France. From 1890 onwards, Eduard Veith was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, which had opened a few years earlier as an important exhibition house for painting, sculpture, architecture and applied arts. In 1920, he was appointed professor. Over the course of his career, he received several gold medals for special artistic achievements. In Vienna, Veith created several large-scale wall and ceiling paintings, including in the Volkstheater, the Ronacher and the Theresiensaal of the Neue Hofburg. He also executed a ceiling painting for the swimming hall of the Diana Baths, which closed in 2020. In addition to monumental architecture-related works, his oeuvre includes landscape watercolours and numerous portraits of Viennese society. Veith’s paintings, often with a neo-rococo flourish, are reminiscent of Hans Makart’s painting style.