The Jungfrau
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (Jülich 1807 - Karlsruhe 1863)
Lot-No. 515
Proceeds : 12.000 €
Ca. 1835. Oil/canvas/wood. 32 x 41,5 cm. We thank Marcell Perse for kindly confirming the authenticity, and valuable informations. According to this, the motif was most likely created during Schirmer's first trip to Switzerland in 1835. - Literature: The painting is published with ill. in.: J. W. Schirmer in seiner Zeit. Exh. cat. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 2002, p. 109, fig. 36/1 - Provenance: In the collection of the artist Erdmann Wagner (1842-1917); thence by descent. - One of the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. S. first learned his father's trade as a bookbinder and from 1825 studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy under F. W. von Schadow. He traveled through Italy and southern France before becoming a teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy in 1840. In 1854 he took over the position of director of the newly founded art school in Karlsruhe. Schirmer's art mediates between Romanticism and Naturalism. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Cologne (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Frankfurt (Städel), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.), Karlsruhe, Hamburg, Dresden a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer: The Jungfrau
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (Jülich 1807 - Karlsruhe 1863)
The Jungfrau
Lot-No. 515
Proceeds : 12.000 €
Ca. 1835. Oil/canvas/wood. 32 x 41,5 cm. We thank Marcell Perse for kindly confirming the authenticity, and valuable informations. According to this, the motif was most likely created during Schirmer's first trip to Switzerland in 1835. - Literature: The painting is published with ill. in.: J. W. Schirmer in seiner Zeit. Exh. cat. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe/Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 2002, p. 109, fig. 36/1 - Provenance: In the collection of the artist Erdmann Wagner (1842-1917); thence by descent. - One of the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. S. first learned his father's trade as a bookbinder and from 1825 studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy under F. W. von Schadow. He traveled through Italy and southern France before becoming a teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy in 1840. In 1854 he took over the position of director of the newly founded art school in Karlsruhe. Schirmer's art mediates between Romanticism and Naturalism. Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Cologne (Wallraf-Richartz-Mus.), Frankfurt (Städel), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.), Karlsruhe, Hamburg, Dresden a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
