Bidspirit auction | CHRISTIAN VON SCHNEIDAU ”FIVE O'CLOCK

CHRISTIAN VON SCHNEIDAU ”FIVE O'CLOCK TEA (A PORTRAIT OF MRS. ELWOOD RIGGS)” WATERCOLOR - Original watercolor painting on paper by listed artist, Christian Von Schneidau (CA, Sweden, 1893 - 1976) Five O'clock Tea (A Portrait of Mrs Elwood Riggs), signed lower right. Features a portrait of Mrs. Elwood Riggs at five o'clock tea. Art measures 10.5” h x 9.5” w presented in a frame measuring 16” x 15”.  Artist bio: Von Schneidau's work has been exhibited in the Chicago Museum, Chicago Art Institute, the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia, Los Angeles County Museum and the De Young Art Museum of San Francisco and many others, as well as in continental Europe. Winner in a nation-wide competition in 1951, other awards include first grand prize, portrait of King Gustave Adolf VI of Sweden, now hanging in the Swedish Club Gallery at Chicago, Hors-Concours, this honor being conferred by the Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles, and murals for the Swedish Club in Chicago, the Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia, and the Lutheran Hospital and Forum Theater in Los Angeles. Landscapes for Crown Prince Gustave Adolf of Sweden, Crown Princess of Denmark, Crown Princess of Norway, and innumerable others are included in his commissions.  For ten years von Schneidau was a staff artist and chief portrait painter with 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles, Calif. His canvases of motion picture stars include Mary Pickford, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Jean Hersholt and Douglas Fairbanks among many others. Von Schneidau estimates he has about 550 other portraits and some 850 landscapes now hanging in museums and homes throughout the world. He is the founder and director of the Christian von Schneidau School of Fine Arts of Los Angeles, also of the Scandinavian American Art Society of the West at Los Angeles, was president of this club for eight years. Charter member and president for two years of the Painters and Sculptors Club of Los Angeles and member of the Board of Directors for eighteen years.