Joseph Bütler - View of Lake Lucerne from Mount Rigi - image-1

Lot 140 Dα

Joseph Bütler - View of Lake Lucerne from Mount Rigi

Auction 1114 - overview Cologne
19.09.2018, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th C.
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 18.600 € (incl. premium)

Joseph Bütler

View of Lake Lucerne from Mount Rigi

Oil on canvas. 90 x 143 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: Joseph Bütler Düsseldorf Juli 1867.

Born in the town of Küssnacht near Mount Rigi, Joseph Bütler initially learnt to paint under his father Nikolaus Bütler, before joining the private studio of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in Düsseldorf in 1852. Following a stay in Lucerne, Bütler settled in Düsseldorf, where he dedicated himself entirely to landscape painting, especially motifs from the Swiss Alps.

Provenance

Private ownership, Central Rhine Region.