Franz von Bayros (28 May 1866 – 3 April 1924) was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter, best known for his controversial Tales at the Dressing Table portfolio.
At the age of seventeen, he passed the entrance examination for the Vienna Academy with Eduard von Engerth.
Bayros mixed in high society and was part of the circle of friends of Johann Strauss II, whose stepdaughter Alice he married in 1896.
In 1911, he created his most famous and controversial work, Tales from the Dressing Table for which he was later arrested and exiled from Germany.
[4] Returning to Vienna, he felt like an outsider and the outbreak of the First World War increased his sense of alienation.