4473 - Franz Xaver Pieler, attributed, Floral still life

Franz Xaver Pieler, attributed, Floral still life a beautiful bouquet of flowers in a timeless, Old Master style; a floral still life comprising roses, irises, hyacinths, cornflowers and other blooms, arranged in an earth-coloured bell-shaped vase on a pedestal; very flat painting style, oil on panel, first half of the 20th century, signature in the lower left-hand corner painted over, attributed to Franz Xaver Pieler on the reverse, slight signs of ageing, lightly retouched, in a slightly bumped frame, inner dimensions 60.5 x 51 cm. Artist information: Austrian floral painter (1876 in Vienna - 1952 in Klosterneuburg), who very early on specialised in painting bouquets and floral still lifes in the Old Master style or in the style of 19th-century Viennese floral painting; his works usually share a very similar composition. Source: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online and the internet.