"Blind Man's Buff" is a realistic genre painting

(1824 Vienna – 1883 same place) Children are playing the game "Blind Man's Buff" in a stable. A beautiful, realistic genre painting with a rural landscape. Schams studied at the Vienna Academy from 1837 to 1840, as well as in 1846/47 at the Academy of Fine Arts of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art in Prague. Upon returning to Vienna, he became a private student of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, who had a lasting influence on him. Since 1861, Schams was a member of the Vienna Artists' Society (later the Vienna Künstlerhaus). In the 1860s, he increasingly turned to genre painting, where he preferred small, witty scenes from everyday life. Schams belonged to that generation of Viennese artists who grew up in the world of Biedermeier ideas and preserved them until the end of the 19th century. Oil, oak panel. Signed. 75 cm x 95 cm. In a frame.