Leopold Schmutzler (1864-1941)

A painter of semi-erotic women figures, human genre scenes and the values and traditions of farm and working class life, he was born at Mies in Bohemia and settled in Munich where he died in 1941.

His works of the late nineteenth-century, like the Russell-Cotes painting, treat contemporary and 'frock-coat' genre subjects with titles such as The Suitor, The Center of Attention or Woman Eavesdropping on a Conversation. They tend to be painted in a realistic style recalling the 'gallant' subjects of eighteenth-century painting that were so fashionable at the time. The Minuet, like many of the artist's works of this period, is proficiently executed with atuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com
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