Heinrich Bürkel - Cattle Grazing in the Alpine Foothills in Bavaria - image-1

Lot 2244 Dα

Heinrich Bürkel - Cattle Grazing in the Alpine Foothills in Bavaria

Auction 1160 - overview Cologne
14.11.2020, 14:00 - 19th Century
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €

Heinrich Bürkel

Cattle Grazing in the Alpine Foothills in Bavaria

Oil on canvas. 44 x 60 cm.
Signed lower right: HBürkel.

By the early 1840s, Henrich Bürkel was among the most successful landscape painters in Munich. He embedded his depictions of the daily life of farmers, hunters, shepherd boys and bandits into the magnificent landscapes of the Bavarian Alps.

Provenance

Collection of Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt (labelled on the reverse).- Private collection, Rhineland. - Proceeds from the sale of this lot will be donated to the Verein der Freunde des Wallraf-Richartz Museums.

Literature

H.P.Bühler / A. Krückl: Heinrich Bürkel, Munich 1989, p. 260, no. 317.

Exhibitions

Kaiserslautern 1969: Heinrich Bürkel zum 100. Todestag. Gemälde und Graphik, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, cat. no. 110.