Carl Röchling (Saarbrücken 1855 - 1920 Berlin),... Lot 210

Carl Röchling (Saarbrücken 1855 - 1920 Berlin), ,Drei Soldaten im Weizenfeld, gouache on wove paper and laid down on card reinforced with a stretcher, signed lower right, the lower right corner with a longer tear without paper loss (28 x 8 cm), 60 x 100 cm, realistically and detailed painted scene from the Franco-Prussian War, under glass in a wide wooden frame, overall size: 71 x 111 cm. Provenance: Werner Collection, Neunkirchen. Limit 720,- >> Military a. genre painter, studied in Karlsruhe a. Berlin, master pupil of Anton von Werner, one of the most famous battle and history painters at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, his painting "Admiral Seymour giebt bei dem Rückzuge auf Tientsin den Befehl: 'The Germans to the front!"" from 1902 became an international icon of the German Empire par excellence. Lit.: Thieme Becker.