Wolken. Um 1880.
Oil on canvas.
With the estate stamp and numbered labels verso on the stretcher. 24.5 x 40 cm (9.6 x 15.7 in).


• An airy Impressionist lightness in delicate colors in front of a vast sky.
• Steffan's painterly qualities become evident in the atmospheric mood he captured surrounding his subject
• Influenced by the luminaries of the Munich School, such as Wilhelm Kaulbach and Carl Rottmann, he was one of the most important representatives of an immediate and intimate landscape style.

PROVENANCE: From the estate of the artist (1905, with the stamp on the reverse).
Kunsthandlung Max Wydler, Zürich (1955).
Private collection, Germany.
Private collection, Germany (inherited from the above in 2001).

LITERATURE: Eva Sandor-Schneebeli, Adrian Scherrer, Johann Gottfried Steffan. Landschaftsmaler 1815-1905, mit einem Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Wädenswil 2008, cat.-no. 18x-74.
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Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Inv.-Nr.2084.