Ernst Schweinfurth - Landscape with a Castle and Wagon - image-1

Lot 1227 Dα

Ernst Schweinfurth - Landscape with a Castle and Wagon

Auction 1049 - overview Cologne
16.05.2015, 11:00 - Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

Ernst Schweinfurth

Landscape with a Castle and Wagon

Oil on canvas (relined). 99.5 x 136 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: E.[?].Schweinfurt. Roma.- 62..

Schweinfurth worked in the studio of Carl Ludwig Frommel in Karlsruhe as of 1832, where he made copperplate prints, engravings and drawings. After a short stay in Freiburg in Breisgau, he later moved to Munich where he became a member of the Munich Art Society in 1871. Following sojourns to Dalmatia and Montenegro he settled in Rome in 1853, where the present work was completed.

Provenance

Private ownership, West Germany.