 Hermann Kern

Hermann Armin von Kern (14 March 1838 – 18 January 1912) was an academic painter, one of the most popular Austrian genre painters of his time and a court painter at the court of Franz Josef I in Vienna.Born of a noble von Kern family in Liptóújvár, now Liptovský Hrádok, Slovakia, son of a famous doctor of medicine, Benjamin von Kern(1800 L. Mikuláš - 3.12.1868 L. Hrádok),Doctor of medicine, who recognized his exceptional talent at an early age and paid for his education, he began his artistic training at the age of 16 in Levoča under Theo Böhm.