Carl Rottmann - Morning Sun over the Sea - image-1

Lot 1318 Dα

Carl Rottmann - Morning Sun over the Sea

Auction 1108 - overview Cologne
16.05.2018, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
Result: 93.000 € (incl. premium)

Carl Rottmann

Morning Sun over the Sea

Oil on canvas. 37.5 x 47.5 cm.

This painting dates to the late 1840s and thus belongs to the later period of the painter Carl Rottmann, who died in 1850. In the last decade of his life, the artist became increasingly fascinated by the cosmic and heavenly dimensions of light phenomena. The topographically recognisable, earthly motifs took second place behind the depiction of the cosmic limitlessness of the all-encompassing sky. “[…] the earth's surface seems to stretch infinitely out into the low horizon and dissolve into the light. Two-thirds of the image are occupied by the sun-lit sky. The landscape becomes a part of the globe, and the globe in its relation to the sun, a part of the cosmos […]” (from the German, Bierhaus-Rödiger, op. cit., on the present work).
Proceeds from the sale of this work will go to benefit the Cardinal Meisner Foundation, Cologne.

Provenance

Collection of Helmuth Domizlaff (1902–1983), Munich. – By descent to the sculptor Hildegard Domizlaff (1898-1987), Cologne.

Literature

Decker, Hugo: Carl Rottmann, Berlin 1957, p. 100, no. 808, illus. 269. - Bierhaus-Rödiger, Erika: Carl Rottmann. Monographie und kritischer Werkkatalog, München, 1978, p. 411, no. 686, illus. p. 412. – Exhib. cat.: "Landschaft als Geschichte. Carl Rottmann 1797-1850. Hofmaler König Ludwigs I.“, Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg und Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München 1997/98, Munich 1998, p. 326f.