Growing up in Vienna, Austria, Rudolph Ingerle was fascinated by persons he perceived as quaint in the nearby mountains of Moravia. He became committed to painting subjects, primarily landscapes and people in those landscapes, that related to his surroundings. He transferred that interest to regions of his adopted country of America where he had a career based in Chicago.

Ingerle studied at the Art Institute and then traveled extensively in search of landscapes that appealed to him. Locations included Brown County, Indiana; the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. His figural subjects appeared generally untroubled by concerns beyond their own boundaries.

HIs style was traditional...