Wilt Hans

1867 – Vienna – 1917

Landscape painter. He studied with Johann Kautsky for five years and was a student at the Vienna Academy under Eduard von Lichtenfels from 1886 to 1891. From 1893 to 1894 he stayed in Rome on a scholarship from the Vienna Academy. He painted mainly motifs from the Wachau, Capri, Sicily and the Riviera. In the autumn of 1917, a memorial exhibition was held at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. In 1900 he received the bronze medal at the World Exhibition in Paris. From 1896 he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, from 1900 until 1905 of the Hagenbund.

Lit.: H. Fuchs, Die Österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, vol. IV, Vienna 1988, p. 133