Victor Schramm

Viktor Schramm, born on May 19, 1865 in Orșova, Romania, died on November 18, 1929 in Munich, was a Romanian painter and illustrator. He was a member of the Munich School, an association of artists who worked in Munich or studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Schramm grew up in Romania, but later traveled to Germany to study art at the Munich Academy. His teachers included Franz von Stuck and Karl von Piloty, and from 1900 Schramm took part in the annual exhibition of the Munich Secession.

Schramm’s work comprises genre paintings of everyday life, showing elegantly dressed young women. Schramm mainly shows the texture of dress fabrics and the play of colors in silk. Schramm’s work is sometimes compared to the paintings of the Italians Arturo Ricci and Tito Conti.

Schramm was a successful portrait painter. The Military History Museum in Budapest owns 26 portraits of Hungarian officers painted by Schramm. Schramm also painted a portrait of the Austrian Field Marshal Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, which is in the Vienna Army Museum.