Otto Pilny began his artistic education in Prague. He lived in Vienna and ended up settling in Zurich. Just like Ludwig Deutsch (1855–1935), Rudolf Ernst (1854–1932) and Carl Leopold Müller (1834–92), Pilny was encouraged to travel abroad. During his two trips to Egypt, a favorite destination of the Austro-Hungarian school, the first one in 1889 and later in 1892, he acquired the taste of painting Orientalist scenes of Middle Eastern landscapes, life, customs and people, something that he continued doing for his entire artistic career. His paintings also captured scenes of Islamic culture and traditions. In recent years, Pilny's work has attracted the eye of Museum curators, collectors and art dealers.
Romantic Sunset Desert Dance Oil Painting on Canvas, 19th Century
By Otto Pilny
Located in New York, NY
Otto Pilny was a Swiss Orientalist painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Specializing in exoticized oil paintings of the Middle East, his work often features desert scenes...
Canvas, Oil
Orientalist Oil Painting Depicting the Trade of a Horse by Pilny
By Otto Pilny
Located in London, GB
Orientalist oil painting depicting the trade of a horse by Pilny Swiss, 1913 Canvas: Height 80cm, width 121cm Frame: Height 102cm, width 142cm, depth 6cm This beautiful Orientalist...
Canvas, Oil
$3,414Sale Price|25% Off
H 27.96 in W 24.41 in
Orientalist European painter - 19th century Arab city street with caravan
Located in Varmo, IT
Orientalist painter (19th century) - View of an Arab city with caravan. 57 x 47 cm (unframed) - 71 x 62 cm (framed). Original oil on canvas, in a contemporary 19th-century carved a...
Canvas, Oil
$1,365
H 13.39 in W 11.23 in D 1.19 in
Allegory of Love, Cupid With Beauty in Fine Dress Carrying a Basket of Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th Century oil on canvas laid on board of a young beauty in period costume carrying a basket of flowers on her head. Presented in a very fine gilt, period 'Directoire' frame...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$3,414
H 20.08 in W 24.81 in
Kastellet, View of Kastellholmen from Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
By Carl Skånberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
signed lower right oil on canvas unframed 37 × 50 cm (14.6 × 19.7 in) framed 51.5 × 63 cm (20.3 × 24.8 in) This painting depicts Kastellholmen as seen from Skeppsholmen, rendered un...
Canvas, Oil
$2,503
H 29.14 in W 23.63 in
Romantic Italian painter - 19th century oil painting, Portrait of a Lady
Located in Varmo, IT
Romantic painter (second half of the 19th century) - Portrait of a Lady in Medieval Costume. 45,5 x 31 cm (without frame) - 74 x 60 cm (with frame). Oil on canvas, in a carved wood...
Canvas, Oil
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
By Michael Tole
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty. The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Oil, Canvas
$3,000
H 29.14 in W 25.6 in D 1.19 in
The Fair Skipper: boating on a mountain lake ca 1830 the Swiss Alps painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is an almost two hundred year old painting which is so irresistibly charming that it's crazy! You may have seen painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes - but how many pretty...
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Dutch Country Scene with Girl
Located in San Francisco, CA
This twentieth-century oil on canvas painting depicts a traditional Dutch country genre scene complete with a quiet waterway, cottage, and windmill against a pale sky. A young girl s...
Canvas, Oil
"Mother and Child in a Countryside Setting"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Adolf Luben (1837–1905) "Mother and Child in a Countryside Setting" This charming 19th-century oil painting on canvas by Adolf Luben captures a heartwarming rural scene, depicting a...
Canvas, Oil
$900
H 11.82 in W 27.56 in D 1.19 in
Israeli Contemporary Art by Dondi Schwartz - View to a Life
By Dondi Schwartz
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...
Canvas, Oil
$6,822
H 44.1 in W 38.59 in
Large 19th Century Biblical Oil Painting, Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the
By Continental School
Located in GB
A striking 19th-century oil painting depicting Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well, one of the best-known episodes from the Gospel of John. Christ is shown seated beside the ...
Canvas, Oil
$2,025
H 23.63 in W 28.75 in
"White Gardens", Bold Impressionist Oil Painting of a Snowy Rural Landscape
By Yves Calméjane
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This painting is a quietly luminous depiction of a snow-covered garden in winter, rendered in oil on canvas at H 23.6 in x W 28.7 in. Bare deciduous trees dominate the foreground and...
Canvas, Oil
$22,000
H 48 in W 60 in D 1.5 in
"The Nightmare" - Dark Contemporary Realism Baroque Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983) "The Nightmare" 2025 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the side and the back of the painting. We ship al...
Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
$10,812
H 76.78 in W 51.19 in D 1.97 in
The republican picnic Stéphane Fauchille Contemporary art painting colour humour
By Stéphane Fauchille
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Unique work Hand-signed by the artist Stéphane Fauchille, dream anthropologist “Would you, for a moment, like to become the Claude Lévi-Strauss of the aborigin...
Canvas, Oil
$7,500
H 28.5 in W 24.5 in
The Young Musician: 19th Century Romantic Oil Painting on Canvas
By Otto Erdmann
Located in Naples, Florida
Otto Wilhelm Eduard Erdmann was born in 1834 in Leizpig, Germany. He is best known for his fine interior and genre scenes, often including figures. This original oil is a prime examp...
Canvas, Oil
I Can Buy Myself Flowers. Peonies
By Wencke Uhl
Located in New Orleans, LA
I Can Buy Myself Flowers marks the first gallery solo exhibition of Bonn, Germany-based painter Wencke Uhl. First appearing in the 27th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Exhibitio...
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Oil