Lot 1120 D α

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller - Portrait of the Landscape Painter Karl Wilhelm Götzloff (1803-1866)

Auction 1276 - overview Cologne
22.11.2025, 11:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century Part I
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.008 € (incl. premium)
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Portrait of the Landscape Painter Karl Wilhelm Götzloff (1803-1866)

Pencil, heightened in white. 19.4 x 14.4 cm.
Framed under glass.
Monogrammed and dated lower right: G.W. / Napoli 1841;
inscribed lower left: Götzloff Maler aus Dresden.

Carl Wilhelm Götzloff, who had been a student at the Dresden Academy from 1814 to 1821 and had studied under Caspar David Friedrich and Johann Christian Dahl, among others, subsequently spent most of his life in Italy, where he also died in 1866 in Sorrento.
Waldmüller's portrait of the artist was drawn in 1841 in Naples, where Götzloff had been working since 1835 as court painter to Ferdinand II, King of the Two Sicilies.

Provenance

Wawra, Vienna, 22.9.1930, lot 560. - Dr. Herbert Bartsch Collection, Vienna (verso mark). - Dorotheum, Vienna, 13.9.1984, lot 927, plate 124 (45.000 ATS). - Private collectio Austria.

Literature

A. Roessler / G. Pisko (eds.): Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Sein Leben, sein Werk und seine Schriften. 2 vols, Vienna 1908, no. 151. - B. Grimschitz: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Verzeichnis der Skizzenbücher und Zeichnungen, Salzburg 1957, p. 372.