Franz Xaver Kosler

(Vienna 1864–1905)
A fellah woman, signed, dated and inscribed Franz Kosler Cairo 1895, oil on canvas, 58 x 40 cm, framed, (Rei)

Provenance:
Private Collection Vienna.

Franz Xaver Kosler was the student of the Orientalist painter Leopold Karl Müller at the Viennese Academy. In 1886 he undertook a research trip to Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Albania, as well as a further trip to Egypt in 1884.
His first collective exhibition in Cairo won him fame and portrait commissions from the Egyptian prince Said Halim Pasha. In the winter months of the following years, Kosler continued to travel in Egypt. In Vienna, he painted for the Archduke Ferdinand Karl amongst others, and displayed his work at exhibitions at the Viennese Künstlerhaus. In 1899 and 1906 he also exhibited work with Egyptian motifs at the Munich Glass Palace and the Royal Academy Exhibition in London. Today, most of Kosler’s work is in the hands of English private collectors.