Sale: 422 / Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century, May 22. 2015 in Munich Lot 295

 

295
Wilhelm Heinrich Schneider
Verschneite Winterlandschaft, 1855.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 9,375 / $ 10,125

(incl. surcharge)
Verschneite Winterlandschaft. 1855.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower left. 43.5 x 64.5 cm (17.1 x 25.3 in). [CB].

PROVENANCE: Private ownership North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Anniversary exhibition 125 Years Galerie Paffrath 1867-1992, Düsseldorf 1992, (with color illu. in cat., p. 25).

"Wilhelm Schneider was active as landscape painter in Dresden and had specialized in romantic winter pictures. In 1841 he joined the newly founded landscape studio at the Dresden Academy and was one of the first students of Adrian Ludwig Richter. Over the preceding decades Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl had helped Dresden Romanticism to lasting bloom. The spiritual depth of these two outstanding landscape artists wore off in the following and made way for a decorative late romanticism that references the first half of the century just in vague acts of imitation. The "Verschneite Winterlandschaft" by Schneider offers a surprising encounter with a painter who, according to Boetticher, had specialized in winter scenes. His work, however, seems to have gone lost. The Kunstsammlung Chemnitz is the only public collection in possession of some of his paintings. The artist's low degree of popularity is made up by the brilliant style which offers an entirely independent character, technical highlights such as the execution of ice and snow, as well as the sensitively selected figures. The only 'colors' in the surrounding of the snow-covered farm are limited to the clothing of the woman coming for the water in center." (Ex. cat. Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 24).



295
Wilhelm Heinrich Schneider
Verschneite Winterlandschaft, 1855.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,640
Sold:
€ 9,375 / $ 10,125

(incl. surcharge)