Hans Temple

Hans Temple (7 July 1857, Littau – 2 December 1931, Vienna[1]) was a Moravian-Austrian portrait and genre painter.

He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where his primary instructors were Hans Canon and Heinrich von Angeli.

In 1898, he received a major commission from Princess Alexandrine of Baden, for a depiction of the celebrations which occurred on the occasion of her wedding to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1842, at Karlsruhe Palace.

He also received commissions directly from the Viennese Court; which included works honoring those who served in hospitals during World War I, and for the 85th birthday celebrations of Kaiser Franz Joseph I.

Shortly after the beginning of the war, he married a second time; to Elsa Wilhelmine Mayer (1876–1962) He died at the age of seventy-four, and was interred at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Self-portrait (1911)
The Sculptor, Alajos Stróbl , at Work