Lot 1569 Dα

Friedrich Kallmor­gen's love of travel was to stay with him until the end of his life. His sketchbook and painting tools remained loyal companions throughout, helping him to capture the sights, moods, and impressions of foreign climes. He was able to use his sketches of city views and scenes of everyday life as the basis for impressive oil paintings for years. Kallmorgen liked to combine elements of genre and landscape paintings, and thus the blending of these genres played an important role in his oeuvre. The present work is a perfect example of this, combining an atmospheric view of Antwerp with a depiction of a fisher mending his nets in the fore ground. The piece is listed in Kallmorgen's catalogue raisonné of his own works as being painted in spring of 1883, alongside a small study.