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Alfred Gerstenbrand studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in the class of Felician Myrbach, Kolo Moser and Josef Hoffmann. In addition to his artistic work, he worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance. He joined the Klimt group and took part in the Kunstschau 1908, where he particularly attracted attention with his caricatures and ironic portraits of Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud. After being wounded in the First World War, he was dependent on a walking stick throughout his life. From 1918 he was a member of the Vienna Secession and soon became vice president. In 1919 he took early retirement and devoted himself exclusively to painting. From 1923 onwards, he regularly spent his summers in the Salzkammergut, at Mondsee and later especially in St. Gilgen. He maintained contact with the Zinkenbach painters' colony and in 1938 created a monumental mural depicting a horse-drawn sleigh ride in the Sporthotel Saalbach. In 1946 Gerstenbrand bought Quincy Adams' summer house in St. Gilgen and from then on spent most of his time in St. Gilgen at the Wolfgangsee. As a “tavern painter” he decorated the dining rooms of inns and portrayed citizens of St. Gilgen and famous holiday guests. Gerstenbrand was characterized by his high level of drawing skills and his versatility. In addition to portraits, landscapes and genre paintings, he also created a series of humorous, caricatured depictions of different types of people.
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