Hans Hamza, Eleganter Herr am Schreibsekretär

Hans Hamza, Eleganter Herr am Schreibsekretär
Hans Hamza, Elegant gentleman at the writing desk
Dressed in reddish, elaborately embroidered velvet, gentleman with wig, in a luxuriously furnished room at the writing desk, studying a book, detailed genre painting in partly bright colours, oil on wooden panel, c. 1900, signed lower right "Hans Hamza", framed in c. 10.5 cm wide gold stucco moulding and brass label on this "Hans Hamza 1879 Vienna 1945", folding dimensions c. 20 x 16 cm. Artist's info: actually Johann Hamza, (1850 Tel/Teič, Moravia until 1927 Vienna), studied at the Vienna Academy, from 1880 member of the Vienna Academy, led Viennese genre painting to a new flowering in the 1880s, 1891 awarded the gold medal at the art exhibition in London, Source: Thieme-Becker, Bötticher and Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon.