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Lot 159 Dα

Heinrich Winter - On the Steppes

Auction 1064 - overview Cologne
16.03.2016, 14:30 - Paintings 15th - 19th Centuries
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €

Heinrich Winter

On the Steppes

Oil on canvas. 19.5 x 34 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: H. Winter 1872.

Heinrich Winter was a pupil of Jakob Becker at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. As of 1864 he worked with the Kronberg painter's colony at the invitation of Anton Burger, before moving to Paris in 1867 where he shared a studio with Adolf Schreyer. He returned to Kronberg in 1871, leaving to take artistic sojourns to Hungary, Romania and the Near East.

Literature

August Wiederspahn and Helmut Bode: Die Kronberger Malerkolonie. Ein Beitrag zur Frankfurter Kunstgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt/Main 1971, ill. p. 447.