858 - Rudolf Lengrüsser, portrait of a lady, young woman with pinned-up blonde hair

Rudolf Lengrüsser, portrait of a lady, young woman with pinned-up blonde hair (1894 Vienna – 1959 Salzburg), oil/board, signed lower right "R. Lengrüsser", inscribed by hand on the reverse, 20th century, half-length portrait of a young woman against a dark ground, head turned to the left with lowered gaze, pinned-up blonde hair with fringe, pearl earring, bare shoulder, below a white blouse, condition commensurate with age, craquelure, image 47.5x32 cm (HxW), glazed, framed, frame chipped, frame width 6.5 cm Rudolf Lengrüsser was born in Vienna in 1894 and trained as a theatre painter at the Vienna Court Opera from 1910 to 1912. From 1913 he studied at the Königsberg Art Academy, made study trips to Finland, Lithuania, Italy and Switzerland and worked until 1935 as a freelance painter, draughtsman, illustrator and caricaturist in Königsberg. He contributed to the Munich magazine "Jugend", then went to Berlin and returned to Vienna in 1939. From 1946 the Austrian artist worked in Leoben in Styria; he died in Salzburg in 1959. His work comprises nudes, landscapes and portraits of women in oil, watercolour and drawing.