Description of the painting

TITLE PAINTING: 

Bal city hall Vienna

THEME:

Realism (Austrian Historical Event)

Ball at the Vienna City Hall (Austria) in the presence of the mayor, Karl Lueger.

DATED:

1904

MEDIUM:

oil on canvas

SIZE:

3 843 × 2 713 pix(11,37 Mio)

CURRENT LOCATION:

musée d’histoire de Vienne

USER (PHOTO):

Yelkrokoyade

GNU Free Documentation License.

[ Source of the photo and description: fr.wikipedia.org]

Artist:

Wilhelm Gause

Wilhelm Gause (27 March 1853 – 13 June 1916) was a German-Austrian painter. He studied at the Academy of Düsseldorf, and in 1888 exhibited his work in Vienna.
Works
Among the most famous creations of Gause, there are, too, “Court Ball at the Hofburg.” Created in 1900, it is suspended today in the walls of the Wien Museum Karlsplatz, in Vienna, Austria. He represents aristocrats gathering around Franz Joseph I of Austria at the Imperial Palace of Hofburg.