"The Courtship" by Max Gaisser

Oil on board signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection New England, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas Measuring 25" x 19" panel and 30" x 24" including the frame. Max Gaisser, born June 22, 1857 in Augsburg, Germany and died July 20, 1922 in Munich, was a traditional genre painter (or a painter of scenes from everyday life) that focused on interior scenes inspired by the Dutch masters of the 16th and 17th century. He received his education in artmaking first from his father, fellow genre painter Jakob Emanuel Gaisser, and then from Ludwig Lofftz at the Munich Academy of Arts.