Alois Hans Schram was born in Vienna on August 20th. He was a painter and sculptor of historical and genre subjects, figures, landscapes and seascapes. A student at the Academy of Art in Vienna, he was awarded a silver medal in 1892.

Schram`s Fischer van Erlach explains the model of the Karl Church to Emperor Karl VI, originally intended for the festival room at Vienna City Hall, was featured at the Jubilee Church and exhibited at the House of Artists in Vienna in 1908. In 1911 he produced the frieze known as Benefits of Peace, a one hundred meter allegorical depiction celebrating the blessing of peace, Civic virtues and patriotism, on the stairway at the Viennese Parliament.

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