Emil Jacob Schindler (1842, Vienna - 1892, Vienna) was the son of a wealthy manufacturing family, Jakob and Maria Penz Schindler. His parents meant for him to have a military career, but instead at 18 he entered the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Albert Zimmermann who also taught famed artists Eugen Jettel, Rudolf Ribarz and Robert Russ. While other local artists like Jettel and Ribarz spent years in France and had been exposed to the plein-air style, Emil Schindler was more influenced by his travel within Austria, Switzerland and Germany and study of 17th century Dutch painters. He moved away from the predominant Austrian "atmospheric realism" as it was taught at the Vienna Academy and through his study...