Hugo Mühlig - Winter Landscape with Donkies - image-1

Lot 2569 Dα

Hugo Mühlig - Winter Landscape with Donkies

Auction 1221 - overview Cologne
20.05.2023, 16:00 - Old Masters & 19th Century Part II
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

Hugo Mühlig

Winter Landscape with Donkies

Oil on canvas. 73 x 110.5 cm.
Signed lower right: Hugo Mühlig.

This broad, almost monochromatic snowy landscape, whose horizon seems to melt into the greyish white clouds, exudes an atmosphere of peace and calm. The slow, steady footsteps of the pensive farmer ploughing through drifts of snow in the soft evening light lends the scene a contemplative air. The motif of the farmer and his donkey can also be found in Mühlig's small painting "Bauer mit Esel auf dem Heimweg" (cf. A. Baeumerth/W. Körs: Hugo Mühlig 1854-1929. Leben und Werk, Düsseldorf 1997, p. 221, no. 288b).

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland. - Lempertz auction 1097, Cologne, 18.11.2017, lot 2572. - Belgian private collection.