Oswald Roux

The painter and graphic artist Oswald Roux organized the Carnival parade in Wien (Vienna) in 1939. He was a landscape and animal painter, especially of horses, etcher and lithographer. Roux studied in Wien and was from 1907-39 a member of the Vienna Secession. During World War I, Roux was an official war artist.

The art catalog lists two paintings for Roux with the same title, Spanish Riding School in Vienna, one with the addition of the term “tempera”. The identity of one of them is proven by an illustration. It was painted in 1936 in oil on plywood in the format 80.5 x 107 cm. On the art market there is another painting in oil on canvas traded with the title Vienna Riding School. Moreover, an etching by Roux is titled From the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, showing a Lipizzaner doing the piaffe, but was probably created earlier.