Hans Hamza - Artist Info

About Hans Hamza

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Hans Hamsza
  • Biography

    Johann Hamza, born in 1850 in Tel/Teic, Moravia, was a prominent Austrian artist who studied at the Vienna Academy. He became a member of the Vienna Academy in 1880 and led the Viennese genre painting to a new flowering in the 1880s. In 1891, he was awarded the gold medal at an art exhibition in London. Hamza passed away in Vienna in 1927. Sources for his biography include Thieme-Becker, Bötticher, and the Austrian Biographical Dictionary.Thieme-Becker, Bötticher, Austrian Biographical Dictionary.

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