People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street

Friedrich Friedländer

1859

Painting of crowd of people next to building exterior and steps.

People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street is one of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known works. In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of a trend in European art that was moving away from historical and religious subjects and increasingly focusing on modern life, Friedländer began to shift from the academic painting of his early career to scenes of military and everyday life in Vienna. This painting is also known by the title After the Lottery Drawing. In the center of the work a young woman, dressed in bright colors, unlike the crowd behind her, shows in one hand the lottery ticket that she has probably won. Another woman advances toward her, stretching out her hand as if pleading to be given the ticket.

Credits

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.

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Creator Bio

Friedrich Friedländer

1825–1901

A Bohemian-born artist, Friedrich Friedländer was a celebrated genre painter who studied at the Vienna Academy. Friedländer began his career as a history painter—the most prestigious genre of academic painting at the time—creating the sensational The Death of Tasso, prior to devoting the majority of his oeuvre to genre scenes. He was awarded several orders of knighthood, including the Order of Francis Joseph and the Bavarian Order of Michael in 1865, and the crown for merit in 1867. He later was elevated to noble status with the suffix von Mahlheim appended to his title.

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