Mid 20th Century Hans Figura Signed Color Etching Beethoven’s House Austria

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Artist: Hans Figura (1898-1978) Hand Signed in Pencil

Subject: Beethoven’s House Winter Scene
Year: Early-Mid 20th Century
Medium: Color etching

… Read more Artist: Hans Figura (1898-1978) Hand Signed in Pencil

Subject: Beethoven’s House Winter Scene
Year: Early-Mid 20th Century
Medium: Color etching

Site size: 7” wide x 6.25 “ high
Frame size: 13.50” wide x 12.5” high
Vintage Custom framed in a wooden antique gold frame, with double matting.
Condition: Frame has nick on backside-see photo

Subject: Snow covered street and passerby’s in front of Beethoven’s house in Vienna, Austria.

The life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven are inseparably bound up with Vienna. In 1787, the composer first came to the city to study with Mozart, from 1792 onwards he lived permanently here. Now is The Beethoven Museum presenting the life and work of the classical composer.

Artist Bio:

Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) was a noted painter and etcher, who was well known for his aquatint etchings on paper or satin of European and American landscape and cityscape scenes, as well as paintings of landscape and cityscape scenes, Tyrolean Alp scenes of villages and chalets, street scenes, harbor and marine scenes.

He served as an officer in the Austrian Army during WWI from 1916-18 on the Russian and Italian fronts. After the war he attended medical school eventually choosing the arts to medicine. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and by 1922 devoted himself to painting and etching.
His first major success came in 1924, when he won acclaim for his etchings exhibited in Italy and the United States. His paintings and prints were exhibited in many of the large cities throughout Europe and the United States acquired by museums and galleries, including The Kulturamt, Vienna, Austria; the Landesmuseum of Lower Austria; as well as The Society of Art Lovers, Berlin and Munich.

Please note the second listing by Hans Figura of a second Vienna Winter Scene in the matching vintage frame (Mozart’s House) See less