The Painterʼs Wife with a Glass of Wine

• Anton Faistauer (1887‒1930)
• 1919
• Oil on canvas
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

The painter’s wife sits with a glass of wine. She is deep in her thoughts with her chin in her hands. Anton Faistauer was one of the co-founders of the New Art Group. He was mindful of latest artistic trends of Europe; he studied the composition and structures of Paul Cézanne, the Post-Impressionist painter, and associated with French Impressionist painters, learning the impasto technique. Faistauer often used the technique of applying paint thickly enough to leave brushstrokes or palette knife marks. The bold brushstrokes create the striking contrast of light and shadows and the texture of Mrs. Faistauer’s clothes.