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Birth
1870 (Kempton, Pennsylvania)
Death
1921 (Palm Beach, Florida)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania
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trompe l'oeil animal, still life and landscape painting
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Ben Austrian left school at the age of fifteen and worked as a salesman
for several years, while teaching himself to be an artist. He helped
promote the business by giving every person that placed an order-no
matter how small- an original painting.
His painting career began by exhibiting
a trompe l'oeil painting called A Day's Hunt that received attention in
Philadelphia. However, Austrian's success came from his paintings of
chickens. In 1902 he went t (showing 500 of 4845 characters). |
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