Ludwig Augustin, Playing chess young couple and elderly gentleman, at the table in the stately rococo salon, immersed in the game of chess, finely glazed with a pointed brush captured historicizing genre painting, oil on hardboard, circa 1950, signed lower left "Ludw. Augustin", beautifully framed, folded dimensions approx. 43 x 38 cm. Artist info: Austrian genre painter (1882 Vienna to 1960 ibid), 1882-1902 in Vienna, 1902-18 in Auspitz [Hustopeče] in Moravia, from 1918 back in Vienna, source: AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Fuchs, Meldezettel der Stadt Wien and Wien-Geschichte-Wiki.

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