Born in Brumath in 1869, Gustave Stoskopf was a theatre writer, painter, storyteller and director of a literary magazine. Very attached to his native Alsace, he painted, from 1912, a whole series of portraits of Alsatian peasants which contrasted with the pompous art in fashion at the time. His work has an inestimable value as a preservation of Alsatian culture, on a par with the draughtsman Hansi. His portraits are sensitive and refined with great truth and simplicity. The Unterlinden Museum has been home to his “Portrait of a Woman Seated in an Interior” since 2001.