Johann Hamza

Johann Hamza, an Austrian artist, was born on June 21, 1850 in Vienna and died there in 1927.

He was a painter of genre scenes and portraits. He was a pupil of Edward Von Engerth with the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna. He Exhibited in Vienna, Dresden, and Munich, from 1879 to 1890. The works of this artist are in great demand.

He favoured a more traditional approach to painting and subject matter consistent with his Academic training and one that would appeal to his bourgeois patrons.  Artists throughout Europe, including Johann Hamza, preferred to look to the past for inspiration, producing fanciful images of an aristocratic society that recalled eighteenth century masters.

Hamza’s son, Hans, continued his father’s artistic tradition and often created market scenes and detailed architectural representations, perhaps learning the sense exactitude for his paintings from his father.