Antique Stoneware Cabinet Plate Hand Painted 3 Women Period Dress Karl Kaufmann

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Antique Stoneware Cabinet Plate Hand Painted 3 Women Period Dress Karl Kaufmann. Measures 10 3/4" across and weighs 1 pound 12.6 ounces. The front artwork is signed lower left Kaufmann. Backstop hard to read clearly but you can tell it is an early mark for Austria Carlsbad Royal Vienna. Fine with no cracks or chips - see my 12 detailed photos. Found at a local estate where the family paid for it many years ago. This is one of the most impressive looking Kaufmann artist painted plates we have ever seen.
Karl Kaufmann (born 1843 in Neuplachowitz, Austrian Silesia; † 27. April 1905 in Vienna) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter.
Karl Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice.
From 1900 Karl Kaufmann constantly lived in Vienna. He often signed his works using pseudonyms. Among various other names, Byon, H. Carnier, W. Carnier, F. Gilbert, O. Halm, C.Charpentier, J. Holmstedt, Charles Marchand, R. Merkner, B. Lambert, E. Leutner, M. Heger, Hobart, L. van Howe / van Hove, R. Jäger, Laarsen, Lundberg, F. Marchant, J. Marchant, C. Poul, F. Rodek, J. Rollin, Taupiac, L. Voigt or R. Benda, have often been used.
Today the majority of Karl Kaufmann's paintings is privately owned. Some of his paintings have been sold in art auctions for considerable prices (32,450 GBP).