Bidspirit auction | Adolf Baumgartner-Stoiloff (also known under

Adolf Baumgartner-Stoiloff (also known under the pseudonym Constantin Stoiloff), Konstantin Stoilov (1850 - 1924) - The Battle of Waterloo, oil on canvas, 82,5х130 cm Signed Adolf Baumgartner – Stoiloff, Constantin Stoiloff, Konstantin Stoilov are the names under which this artist is presented at auctions around the world. Bulgarian, Russian or Austrian are the nationalities with which he is identified in various catalogues. Adolf Baumgartner – Konstantin Stoilov was born in 1850 in the city of Linz, Austria, and died in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg around 1880. He is known as a painter of horses, Cossack scenes and hunting scenes. Between 1900 and 1910 his popularity in Europe was so great that his Russian scenes with hunters and horses were published in almost all European magazines. His works are signed in various ways - “A. Baumgartner – Stoiloff”, “Stoiloff”, “Constantin Stoiloff”, “C. Stoiloff”.