819 - Alois Broch, "Die Orangenverkäuferin", young woman with orange basket, genre piece in ornate frame

Alois Broch, "Die Orangenverkäuferin", young woman with orange basket, genre piece in ornate frame (1864 Vienna to 1939 Berlin), oil on canvas, signed lower left, half-length figure of a young woman with dark curly hair, red headscarf and large gold-coloured earrings, green shawl, before her a wicker basket with oranges, holding up an orange in her left hand, looking at the viewer, in front of a light ashlar wall, at left the play of light from a leaded glass window, condition commensurate with age, retouching, one backed area, somewhat soiled, image 96x71 cm (HxW), framed, frame bumped, frame width 18 cm Alois Broch was born in Vienna in 1864, grew up in Budapest and entered the nature class of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 1883. He worked in Cologne, Munich and Berlin and was a member of the Münchener Kunstverein from 1903. His oeuvre comprises portraits, genre paintings in the Biedermeier style, landscapes and street scenes as well as illustrations, among others for the art publisher Herrmann und Kupfer. Broch died in Berlin-Zehlendorf in 1939.