Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

Johann Christian Brand was an Austrian painter, theson of the German painter Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694–1756) and brother of Friedrich August Brand.

Johann Christian Brand was born in Vienna on 6 March 1722. Influential in ending the baroque era, Johann studied at the Vienna Academy from 1736. He was awarded with the titles Kammermaler in 1766 and "Professor of Landscape Drawing" in 1772. The landscape paintings of Johann Christian Brand marked the transition from the baroque to the 19th-century style of landscape depiction.

Johann Christian Brand died in Vienna on 12 June 1795.

Jesus shared the parable of the workers in the vineyard to teach us how the Kingdom of Heaven operates in regards to our rewards for the work we do for it. 

The parable of the workers in the vineyard can be found in Matthew 20:1-16. In summary, it speaks of a landowner that hired workers throughout the day to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay the first vineyard workers a certain amount for the entire day. He then tells the vineyard workers that he hired at later times through the day that he will pay them what is fair.

At the end of the day, he paid the vineyard workers that started last the same amount as the those that started first. This caused the first vineyard workers to be upset. In response, the landowner told them that he was not being unfair because they agreed to what they were paid at the start.

Lessons from the parable are: 

*Establishing Terms From The Start Prevents Misunderstandings
*Wrong Expectations Are A Source of Disappointment
F*eeling That Something Is Right Doesn’t Make It Right

This painting is oil on canvas, measures 51 x 74 cm  and is housed in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Vienna, Austria)