Lot 2248 Dα

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.