Schweninger is the son of landscape artist Carl Schweninger senior. An Austrian born artist, Carl Schweninger was born in the mid 1800s and lived to the early 1900s. He was the eldest child of Schweninger, and had a younger sister, Rosa, who also became a painter.
Unlike his father, Schweninger Jr. did more paintings of figures than of landscapes, capturing human emotions and gestures quite well. He appeared to be fond of drawing quite a few people together in his paintings. Schweninger's father was his main painting teacher, but he also studied art at the Vienna and Munich Academies.
For his materials, Schweninger Jr. used oil paints on canvas. And, within the two paintings I have posted here, there is a sense of interaction, with the left and right half as a whole, and in the details, intereaction between eachother. Such as the two ladies whispering to one another in the bottom painting. Or the old men in the back, chattering away towards the people in the foreground.
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