Eduard Manhart, "Abend bei Gurnitz" Evening view of the baroque St. Martin's parish church of the former provostry of Gurnitz/Ebenthal in Carinthia on the Sattnitz plateau, built in 1773, low impasto painting in restrained colours, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right "E. Manhart 1908", inscribed on the reverse of the stretcher "Abend by Gurnitz (Kärnten) v. E. Manhart ...", paint shrinkage cracking, partial paint flaking, somewhat in need of restoration, framed in gold stucco moulding, folding dimensions approx. 71 x 100 cm. Artist's info: Austrian landscape painter and fresco artist (1880 Klagenfurt until 1945 in the internment camp Vigaun/Begunje), childhood in Klagenfurt, 1898-1900 pupil at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, afterwards two years of study of landscape painting with Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels at the Academy of Arts in Vienna, 1904-06 private pupil with Ludwig Willroider in Munich, afterwards return to Carinthia and member of the Carinthian Art Society, 1916-18 war painter in World War I, 1918-19 participation in Carinthia's art society. 1918-19 participated in the Carinthian defence struggle, in the 1920s created designs for postcards, artistic decoration of the railway station Klagenfurt and 1926 frescoes in the Landhaus Klagenfurt. World War II war painter in Norway, in 1940-44 he was exhibitor at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich, worked in Ferlach in the Rosental in Carinthia and Klagenfurt, Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Fuchs, Bénézit and Wikipedia.