Hans Temple
Franz Xaver von Pausinger (1839 – 1915)

1913
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, 360

In a prestigious life-size knee-length portrait, Temple presents Franz Xaver von Pausinger as befits a painter-prince, as a well-groomed, well-dressed painter personality. Pausinger’s success was based on his sketches for Crown Prince Rudolf’s Journey to the Orient. Frequent participation in court hunting-parties brought him countless commissions from the high aristocracy. The attributes of antlers, framed painting of game animals and hat with twig indicate his profession of animal painter. Temple’s work is based on photographs taken by Albert Kuhn and Carl Ellinger.