Eduard Veith was student at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts under Ferdinand Laufberger. Further he was educated in Paris. Several study journeys to Italy, Belgium and Tunisia are noted. Veith was also well known as fresco-painter, e.g. he created by order of the Emperor Franz Josef I. the famous ceiling fresco in „Maria Theresia Hall“ of the Vienna Hofburg; as well important works in fresco he executed for the Vienna Volkstheater (People´s Theatre, in neighbourhood the the Arthistorian- and Naturehistorian Museum), the Diana-Bath in Vienna and the wall painting in the Vienna Variété Ronacher. Like Hans Makart or Gustav Klimt with his „Maler-Compagnie“ (Painters Company) he also designed theatre-curtains for Vienna and Prague. He favoured mytholocical and historical themes. Parallely he became very successful as painter of portrayals, especially of symbolist-mystic women-portraits. He received the Carl Ludwig Medal in 1892, the Reichel Prize in 1896 and the Small Golden State Medal in 1896. From 1890 on Eduard Veith was a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus (Vienna House of Artists).