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Peasant Child with Hat, c. 1915

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
38.3×32×2.2 cm

Artists

  • Hans Schachinger

    (Vienna 1888–1952 Nassau)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In this work, Austrian portrait and genre painter Hans Schachinger (1888–1952) focuses on an en face depiction of a peasant girl. The strong contrast between the light background and the black of her clothing is unusual in Schachinger’s oeuvre, which is otherwise characterized by a restrained color palette and low tonal contrast. The rosy-cheeked rural child meets the viewer’s gaze directly with large, dark eyes. Nothing is known about the girl’s identity of the circumstances surrounding the painting’s creation. However, it is clear that the rural milieu played an important role in Schachinger’s genre scenes.

JK, 2025

Object data

Artist/author
  • Hans Schachinger
Title
Peasant Child with Hat
Date
c. 1915
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
38.3×32×2.2 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 538
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Keywords
portraitchildhat

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Wien (1987); (1)
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (1987-1994);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994)

  1. Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Katalog zu “Hans Schachinger”, Wien 1987, Nr. 4 (Abb.)

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