FRÖLICHER, OTTO "Swiss Landscape". Oil on canvas,... Lot 48

FRÖLICHER, OTTO "Swiss Landscape". Oil on canvas, on wood, verso inscribed "From Switzerland by Otto Frölicher", 27,5x45,5 cm Provenance: (Galerie Heinemann, Munich &) Galerie Hansen, Lucerne (1927); private property, Switzerland. Already as a student Otto Frölicher revealed great talent for drawing. In 1859 he went to Munich to train as a painter under Johann Gottfried Steffan, the "German Calame". From 1861 he participated in the annual exhibitions of the Swiss Art Association and regularly took part in the Munich Art Association exhibitions. In 1865 he returned to his native Solothurn, but only three years later he was drawn back to Munich, one of the strongholds of German landscape painting at the time. In addition to the Dutch masters of the 17th century, namely Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema, he was influenced by the mood painting of Adolf Heinrich Liers and the landscape conception of the modern French school, which he had become acquainted with during a stay in Barbizon in the summer of 1877. In the offered work Otto Frölicher dedicated himself to a view above Sion between Valère and Tourbillon with a view of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Glarier, the prominent Mont d'Orge and - on the horizon - the Grand Chavalard and Haut de Cry. We thank Daniel Anker, Bern, for his geographical explanations. http://www.dobiaschofsky.com/d106--10048.html