Female Portrait

• Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887‒1973)
• 1914
• Oil on canvas
• Leopold Museum, Vienna

This woman wearing a white blouse and a large pearl necklace was likely a wealthy patron of the artist. The unidealized portrayal has captured the sitter’s personality and psychology. The painter, Albert Paris Gütersloh, was an actor and a dramatist but became a painter after working as an art correspondent in Paris in the early 1910s. During his time in Paris, he became familiar with the latest art trends like Fauvism. He worked in Vienna with Egon Schiele and Anton Faistauer in the Neukunstgruppe.