ARTIST: Karl Feiertag (German, American, 1874 - 1944)
TITLE: Boy with Cats
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Minor age toning.
ART SIZE: 7 x 11 inches / 17 x 27 cm
MAT SIZE: 12 x 16 inches / 30 x 40 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
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CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 131800
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BIOGRAPHY:
Karl Feiertag (1874 Vienna - 1944 Weidling) was a well-known Austrian painter and illustrator. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna under Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He worked for various advertising companies in Vienna and Munich and moved to Weidling with his wife.The artist was for a long time contributor of the publishing house "August Roekl" and was active in Vienna and Munich. In 1914 he became a member of the Association of Local Artists of Klosterneuburg. Karl Feiertag's work includes landscapes and cityscapes. His artistic postcards with children's motifs, animal motifs, puppets and teddy bears found massive appreciation of the public. For the Viennese art postcard publisher Brothers Kohn, he created a series with views and on-board scenes of the Trieste Austro-American ship "Martha Washington". He also designed children's coloring books.