The Wise and Foolish Virgins by Karl Von Piloty

The painter Karl von Piloty, 1826-1886, who in 1856 at the age of 29, for painting technique in Munich, was endowed with a chair, and became the eventual director of the Munich Arts Academy. He had also studied the new colorism during frequent trips to Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris.

Note: In 1963, Mrs. William Haussner of Baltimore, Maryland, presented Karl von Piloty's painting Parable of "The Wise and Foolish Virgins" to the Nebraska Art Association collection. This painting was featured in the first annual exhibition in 1889, and the photograph of this painting represented here digitally was taken prior to 1892-1893, the publishing date of the book in which it is included "Scenes from Every Land", 1893.

The death of Karl von Piloty (1886) marked the end of the genre of so-called "historical painting".

Nikiforos Lytras was Piloty's first Greek student. He was born in 1832 at Pirgos, a village of the island of Tinos.

Unless otherwise noted, all digital photographic reproductions here are ©Mickey Cox 2001/The Right Image Photography and are obtained from photographs taken prior to the year of publication of 1892. Research is pending and will be posted on the subject artist. Please check back as posted research will be ongoing for each posting.

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