Edmund Kregczy was born in Olmütz (today Olomouc, Czech Republic) on 16th February 1855 and died in Vienna, Austria on 10th August 1916. He studied at the Wiener Akademie (under Hugh Charlemont and Franz Rumpler) and at the Münchner Akademie (under Nikolaus Gysis), and painted portraits and landscapes, nudes and religious subjects. According to Biographien der Wiener Künstler und Schriftsteller many of his paintings were exhibited in, among other places, Vienna, Munich, Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin and Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). His earliest submission as yet found was to the Künstlerhaus in Vienna in 1882. He seems to have enjoyed some lifetime success: several of his exhibitions in Vienna were mentioned in contemporary newspapers and in 1899 a solo one was visited by the Emperor's brother, Archduke Ludwig Viktor. Edmund Kregczy was married and had at least one child, a daughter named Maria (1900–1987).