Josef Schuster - Still Life with a Parrot - image-1

Lot 2248 Dα

Josef Schuster - Still Life with a Parrot

Auction 1221 - overview Cologne
20.05.2023, 14:00 - 19th Century
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 8.820 € (incl. premium)

Josef Schuster

Still Life with a Parrot

Oil on canvas. 42 x 52.8 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: Jos. Schuster 1834.

The young Josef Schuster's talent was discovered by chance by the Viennese academy professor Joseph Mössmer and encouraged by the imperial field marshal Prince Liechtenstein, for whom Schuster's father was in service as a confectioner. Their patronage enabled him to attend the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where Joseph Mössmer, Sebastian Wegmayer and Franz Xaver Petter were his teachers.
This painting, dated 1834, was created before a stay in Bad Gastein, where Schuster discovered the world of alpine flowers as an artistic motif, to which he was to owe his great success.

Provenance

Private collection, Hesse.