Franz Schams
Austrian, 1824–1883
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Born 1824 in Vienna, where he died in 1883. He studied painting with Waldmüller as a private pupil. The painter August Schaeffer von Wienwald called him a “witty painter of pleasant genre scenes”. He also painted events from Austrian history and religious pictures. From 1854 to 1855 he was apparently in Rome. From 1861 onwards he was a member of the “Genossenschaft bildender Künstler Wiens Künstlerhaus”. There are suggestions that he won a gold medal when the Künstlerhaus exhibited in the Museo Revoltella in Trieste in 1882. He also produced lithographs.