A Chess Match

I stumbled upon this Austrian Romantic painter active during the last quarter on the 1800s and the first quarter of the 1900s. He was a water-colorist and a landscapist, but best known as a portraitist. Carl (or Karl) Probst (1854-1924) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in both Vienna and Munich and learned his trade under Heinrich Anton von Angeli or Vienna, a highly sought-after high society portraitist and Wilhelm von Diez of Munich, founder of the Munich school. Probst painted exquisitely detailed and executed portraits known for their technical excellence. He won a medal at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia for "artistic excellence in portrait, 'Portrait Study.'"

Here are examples of his exceptional skill and talent:

This 1886 painting has the burdensome title: "Anfangs wollt ich fast verzagen und ich glaubt, ich trüg es nie"

While this 1887 oil painting has the more subdued title: "Venetian Lady."

In 1902, Probst painted "A Chess Match" which could easily be one of by favorite chess-themed paintings

Thanks for sharing this painter. The chess one is a very fine composition. Curiously the orientation of the board may not follow our current convention of white on the right. The young adversaries would not be concerned about that detail anyway.

this is awesome I love how you pit chess into art and art into chess just amazing.

Very interesting, thank you very much for posting. there are some issues with that girl in pink's hips though, perhaps she had scoliosis!

Thanks for sharing these paintings! That look on the girl's face makes me wish this painting were titled, "Es heißt en passant, du Idiot."

Found this one on an Austrian site, Die Braut/Bride (1881)

That's another tribute to Probst's technical skill.  I wish the details were more visible such as in the top painting:

So real!

What an artist!

Beautiful

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If you right-click, then choose Open image in new tab will, will give it in the native resolution 1200x927. 

This is a drawing with aquarell technique 32,4 x 45,4 cm from Vienna's Albertina. 

I thank you and Albertina thanks you!