I think the facial expressions and movement in this artist’s work set him apart. Quite magnificent and even scary at times. The one with the big brutish man having the young girl dragged to him for a thrashing, by the governess sent a shiver down my spine!

Born 1878 in Vienna Died 1961 in Innsbruck, Austria

He was a very well-known landscape painter. Particularly popular were his views of Alpine villages and various locations in the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire. From 1946 to 1958 he was the president of the tyrolean artist’s society (Tiroler Künstlerschaft).

Besides watercolor landscapes and architecture paintings, Rudolf Preuss also did a number of spanking art drawings. His pairings included practically all: F/f, F/F, F/M, M/f, and M/F.