Joseph Von Berres-pérez (1821 - 1912) Market Scene In Athens With The Acropolis In The Background

The painting was purchased from a private collection in Prague through the Dorotheum auction on May 22, 2010, together with 3 other oil paintings by the same author. This market scene in Athens with two Orthodox monks and the Acropolis in the background was made by the famous Austrian traveler, general and painter Joseph Berres - Perez undertook trips to the Balkans, Russia, Cremea and the Caucasus . The artist born in 1821 in Lwow / now Ukraine, as an officer and painter lived for a long time in Bekesgyula / Hungary. In 1856 he met the young painter Bertanlan Székely in Brassó, in 1863 he lived in Bekescaba, where he met and later became friends in Paris with Mihaly Munkacsy. 1866 Berres participates as an officer in the war against Prussia, 1867 leaves military service as general mayor to continue his studies and work as a painter. He studied: 1866-1869 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Theodor von Piloty, undertook study trips to Russia, Crémée, Caucasus, Balcan. Since 1869 lives in Vienna, friendship with August von Pettenkofen. Since 1871- member of the Viennese artists' union "Kuenstlerhaus". Berres created realistic and naturalistic military episodes, hunts, horse paintings, topographic landscapes, and ethnographic genre paintings in oils. His works are kept at the Provincial Museum of Linz, in Vienna (Belvedere and Historical Museum of the city).

Literature: Fr.von Boetticher; . H.Fuchs "Lexicon of Austrian artists of the 19th century", ;Thieme/Becker.
Inscription: unsigned.
Technique: oil on wood panel. Luxurious vintage gold plated frame.
Dimensions: unframed 22.5 x 13.5 cm, framed 41 x 32.5 cm.
Condition: in very good condition.