Lot 1230 Dα

With the embossed stamp of the panel-maker “A. Ebeseder / Wien / 1 Opernring 9” to the reverse.
Jakob Emil Schindler was one of the most important Austrian landscape painters of the late 19th century. Schindler's oeuvre can be summarised under his self-conceived notion of “poetic realism”, which referred to a shift away from idealised and “heroic” landscapes and towards a use of simpler motifs and the “interpretation of landscape as observed nature” (Alexander Klee, from the German in: Exhib. cat.: Schindler, ibid. p. 13). The present small format sketch in oils belongs to a series of works depicting the coast of Dalmatia and concentrating especially on breaking waves which Schindler made during an educational sojourn to Dalmatia and Istria in 1887/88 (cf. Fuchs ibid., p. 256-8, no. 609-18). The charming study could even be the sketch which Fuchs lists as “Partie an der Küste bei Ragusa” without an accompanying illustration (p. 259, no. 625) which is also painted on panel and displays the same measurements.