No.414
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Oswald Achenbach
(Dusseldorf 1827-1905) View of the Campagna with the Appian Way, an oxen-drawn cart and farmer on his way to market beside the ruins of a building, signed and dated Osw. Achenbach 1892, Oil on canvas, 106 x 150 cm, framed (GS)
Provenance: Rhenish Private Collection .
Oswald Achenbach: A contemporary of Oswald Achenbach wrote of him: ‘Already his art stands with its colourful shimmering excellence, which led from the brown of his early years to the silver-grey of his later years; with his conscious overlooking of the foreground and often almost impressionistic homogenisation of light effect, the very surface of the painting totally different from that of his brother. In France only Oswald found acknowledgement and not Andreas, although Andreas was the better known in Germany. We can appreciate each in his own way. Andreas was probably the lustier of the two, while Oswald was the more brilliant’ (K. Woermann, Memories of an Octogenarian, Leipzig 1924, Vol. I, p. 351f., cited from: Cat. Andreas and Oswald Achenbach, The A and O of Landscape, Dusseldorf 1998, p. 142). M. Potthoff, wrote in his monograph on Oswald Achenbach (M. Potthoff, Oswald Achenbach, His Artistic Effect on the Middle Class Marriage, Cologne-Berlin 1995, p. 166): ‘As a result of wide-spread discussion of artists and artistic styles, as well as various media of the time, the Italian painting was crystallised; this idea was post-Goethe and can only be understood against the background of increased tourism, as well as taste-forming journal illustrations and photography’. Potthoff concludes that: The German Italian-painting has become a genre. It developed in, first of all, its choice to borrow from the Italian tradition, as then in its fresh visual interpretation and thereby achieves new visionary perspectives. The modernisation of this type of painting is of special art-historical importance (M. Potthoff, op. cit., p. 167).
estimate €70.000,- to €90.000,-
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