 Later, he moved to Paris, and in 1877 he moved to Vienna, and lived there with his large family (his wife Paulina and 10 children) as an emperor Franz Joseph I Court Painter until his death in 1912 in Maria Enzersdorf, Austria.Hermann Armin von Kern specialised in portraits and genre scenes.The latter often depicted children at play, music making gypsies, tavern scenes, and single persons.