Eugene de Blaas, also known as Eugene von Blaas or Eugenio Blaas (24 July 1843 – 10 February 1931), was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism. Life and career He was born at Albano, near Rome, to a Tyrolean father and Italian mother. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. His mother, Agnesina Auda, was a well-to-do Roman woman. The family moved to Venice when Karl became professor at the Academy of Venice. He often painted scenes in Venice, but also portraits and religious paintings. Works Among his works are La forma nuziale in sacrestia; La tombola in Campiello a Venezia; Una scena di burattini in un educandato; and La Ninetta. The art critic Luigi Chirtani, when the painting was displayed at the Mostra Nazionale di Venezia, described it as "[b]eautiful, flattering, pretty, caressed, cleaned, polished, laundress in a painting by Mr. Blaas, the favorite portraitist of great Venetian aristocrats, dressed in gala satins, shining jewelry, hairstyles of the rich." His colorful and rather theatrical period images of Venetian society, e.g. On the Balcony (1877; Private Collection), were quite different compared to delicate pastels and etchings of the courtyards, balcony and canals of modern Venice. Eugene de Blaas' paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, New Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery in London, and also at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Paintings The Sisters 1878 (Cloister-Scene) Conversions of the Rhætians by St. Valentine Cimabue and Giotto Scene from the Decameron Dogaressa Going to Church Venetian Balcony Scene God's Creatures Bridal Procession, in San Marco Venetian Masquerade A Journey to Murano (Vienna Museum) Die Wasserträgerin (1887) On the Beach (1908) In the Water (1914) maiden gathering flowers Works Cultural reference Salim Ghazi Saeedi has dedicated a song entitled "For Eugene, Distilling the Delicacy" to Eugene de Blaas in his 2011 album, Human Encounter''. Notes References Biography of old oil painting master Eugene de Blaas (Text in German and English) External links Eugene de Blaas at artrenewal.org 1932 deaths 1843 births People from Albano Laziale 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Academic art Italian people of Austrian descent Italian genre painters Italian costume genre painters 20th-century Italian painters Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists