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Artist: Alphons Leopold MIELICH, Austrian, (1863 - 1929)
Execution date (approximate): 1905
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower riht)
Measures: 50 x 61.5 cm.
Description: A repetitive Scene through the centuries in the Souks of Morocco and Algeria.
Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts in London, in 1891, 1893, , Dictionary of Contributors and their work
from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,Vol. V, p.240.
Biography
Alphons Leopold Mielich ( 1863-1929) was an Austrian painter, his real name was Alphons
Leopold Mielichhofer, he then cut it off and kept it as Mielich. He was from Salzbourg. His
Father and Brother were in the Navy, so he followed them early in his carrear in the army.
He left the army early as he got sick, and decided to be a Painter. He travelled to Egypt,
he admired the Oriental scenes and decided to be an Orientalist painter. He travelled
to Vienna, Paris, London, Spain, and accompanied many Austrian and German painters
during his trips to Egypt, like Carl L. Muller, and also Alois Musil during his trips to the
Middle-East.
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