Alois Hans Schram was born in Vienna on August 20^th. He was a painter and sculptor of historical subjects, figures, nudes, portraits, scenes with figures, genre scenes, local scenes, interiors with figures, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, waterscapes and seascapes. A student at the art academy in Vienna, he was awarded a silver medal in Vienna in 1892. Schram’s Fischer van Erlach explains the model of the Karl Church to Emperor Karl VI, originally intended for the festival room at Vienna City Hall, was featured at the Jubilee Church and exhibited at the House of Artists in Vienna in 1908. In 1911 he produced the frieze known as Benefits of Peace, a one hundred meter allegorical depiction celebrating the blessing of peace, the civic virtues and patriotism, on the stairway at the Viennese Parliament. Other productions include Apotheosis of the House of Habsburg at the new Hofburg as well as Empress Maria Theresia for the Palace of the Council of Presidential Ministers, once located on Vienna’s famed Lord’s Lane. Schram also decorated interiors, including that of the famed Frankel palace with Leopold Burger. Schram died in Vienna on April 8^th.

Museum: Vienna (MM): Children Paying Homage at the Castle Gate.