Josef Feid (Austrian 1806-1870)
Wooded Landscape
oil on board, with label on verso from C J Wawra
Provenance: Estate of Thea F.B. Bentley
Size: 14 h x 20 w in (with frame 21 x 26 in)
J21799
Josef Feid first studied architecture at the Fine Art Academy in Vienna before turning to painting. His favourite subject matter was forest landscapes and he was very talented at depicting foliage and forest life. He painted in the large Prater Park and surrounding area in Vienna, as well as the Austrian Alps in the Salzkammergut region near Salzburg. The art critic Ludwig Hevesi nicknamed Feid the “forest man from the Vienna Woods” in 1903.