Carl Von Blaas - Artist Info

About Carl Von Blaas

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Carl von Blass
  • Biography from Dorotheum, Vienna

    Carl von Blaas was an Austrian historian and genre painter, father of Eugen and Julius Blaas. He was a professor at the Vienna Academy and preferred religious motives.


    Among his major works are the frescoes for the Altlerchenfelder church and the frescoes of the Hall of Fame in the Military History Museum.
  • Biography from Bonhams Bond Street

    Carl von Blaas, an Austrian portrait, genre and history painter, was father to the well known painter Eugen von Blaas (1843-1931). He was a professor at the Vienna Academy and was elected to the hereditary nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1877 after completing a series of frescoes for the Arsenal in Vienna.

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