Josef Kinzel (Austrian, 1852 1925) Original Oil Painting The Old Cobbler

(Lobenstein 1852 - Spitz an der Donau 1925). This oil on panel of a cobbler at work measures 17.25" x 11.65" and shows a portrait of an old bearded cobbler with glasses working intently. The painting is not signed but has markings and labels verso that reference this work as that by Josef Kinzel, including a reference to the Thieme-Becker Lexikon Book and the stamp of the. Federal Monuments Office of Austria. This wonderful portrait by Kinzel is in good condition with no defects or anything else that distracts from the painting when viewing...

Perfect for a collector and ready to hand and enjoy. Josef Kinzel was a genre landscape and portrait painter, his portraits often portrayed common folk at work and play making this a quintessential example of Kinzel's work.

Josef Kinzel, father of the painter Elise Kinzel, was born on the 4 May 1852 in Lobenstein in Silesia and died on the 4 August 1925 in the Wachau (Austria). The genre, landscape and portrait painter studied at first under Eduard Engerth, Carl von Blaas, Carl Wurzinger, August Eisenmenger and Christian Griepenkerl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Later he continued his studies at the Munich Academy. His teachers were Alois Gabl and Otto Seitz.

Josef Kinzel specialised in genre painting. On his return to Vienna in in the 1880s he joined the Vienna Kuenstlerhaus.

Due to a paralysis in his right hand he painted with his left hand from age 42 on.

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