Julius von Blaas

Julius von Blaas (1845 - early 1920s) was a painter born at Albano, Italy, the second son of the painter Karl von Blaas, under whom he studied. He devoted himself mainly to equestrian and military subjects and, after going to Rome, painted genre scenes from the Campagna, such as Fox Hunt in the Campagna (1877). Market in Upper Hungary (1885), Horse Fair in Bischofshofen (1888) and Morning Training in the Winter Riding School (1890) follow the same line of horse-centred scenes.

His Race of Intoxicated Slavonic Peasants (1869) is in the Imperial Museum of Vienna, as is Antlassritt (1899). He was frequently employed as a portrait painter by the Austrian court and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His interest in horses and rural life sets him apart among the genre painters of his time, and his training under his father accounts for much of his craft.