August Albert Zimmermann - View of Watzmann and Hochkalter - image-1

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August Albert Zimmermann - View of Watzmann and Hochkalter

Auction 1097 - overview Cologne
18.11.2017, 14:00 - 19th Century Art
Estimate: 14.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 17.360 € (incl. premium)

August Albert Zimmermann

View of Watzmann and Hochkalter

Oil on canvas. 128.5 x 181.5 cm.
Signed lower right: Albert Zimmermann (the signature surmounted by three stars).

This imposing view of the Watzmann Mountain is an early work painted in 1831, shortly after Zimmermann moved to Munich. The artist depicts the Berchtesgadener Land and Ramsauer Ache in the foreground with the mountain's impressive silhouette looming in the distance. Before it, the viewer's gaze is led over a broad plane with a stream running through it, populated by shepherds and goats. The warm brown, green, and ochre tones of this pastoral scene contrast starkly against the cool blues and greens of the background.
The artist was celebrated for his lofty but idyllic scenes of Upper Bavaria and Lower Austria. The present work was shown at the Dresden Academy Exhibition and later engraved by Ludwig Schütze. Zimmermann was born in Zittau and first taught himself to paint before taking classes at the Academies in Dresden and Munich. After running an art school in Munich, he later became a professor in Milan and Vienna.

Provenance

Collection of Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt (with collection label to verso). - Private collection, Switzerland. - Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk, Munich.

Literature

Siegfried Wichmann: Münchener Landschaftsmaler im 19. Jahrhunderts, Weyarn 1981, p. 77, illus. 168. - Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1944, vol. 3., p. 1053. - Exhib. cat.: Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk, Jubiläumsausstellung, ed. v. Rolf Schenk und Catherine Franke-Schenk vol. 1, Munich 2013, p. p. 210ff, no. 31.

Exhibitions

Akademische Kunstausstellung, Dresden, 1833.