Lot 110 D α

Friedrich Otto Georgi - A Mountain Lake with an Artist and Shepherds

Auction 1046 - overview Cologne
18.03.2015, 14:30 - Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th Centuries
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €

Friedrich Otto Georgi

A Mountain Lake with an Artist and Shepherds

Oil on canvas. 30 x 44 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: Otto Georgy. 1839. München.

Friedrich Otto Georgi started his career as a landscape painter in Dresden. In 1842, he was commissioned by the Prussian government to accompany the Great Expedition to the Orient (Egypt and Palestine), led by Karl Richard Lepsius, as an artist. He was later considered one of the leading German Orientalists, and his works were immensely popular.

Provenance

Lempertz auction 840, Cologne, 17.5.2003, lot 1397.