Sale: 538 / 19th Century Art, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 616

 

616
Jakob Maurer
Heuernte im Süßen Gründchen bei Mammolshain, Um 1860.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,620
Sold:
€ 2,540 / $ 2,743

(incl. surcharge)
Heuernte im Süßen Gründchen bei Mammolshain. Um 1860.
Oil on canvas.
Lower left signed. With old, fragmentairly preserved labels of the Cronberg Painters Colony and later labels on the reverse. 98 x 80 cm (38.5 x 31.4 in).

PROVENANCE: Metallgesellschaft AG, Frankfurt a. Main.
Dresdner Bank (gifted from the above in 1972).
Galerie F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt a. Main
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: August Wiederspahn, Die Kronberger Malerkolonie, Frankfurt a. Main 1971, p. 107 (with illu.), 696.

Jakob Maurer was a member of the Kronberg painters colony in the Taunus mountains, one of the earliest artist colonies in Germany. In search of unadulterated impressions of nature, Städel students in the landscape classes of Anton Burger and Jakob Dielmann founded it in 1858. Exemplary for this were the French painters in Barbizon, who had started the genre of the paysage intime by painting plein-air around 1830. After a few years at the Düsseldorf Academy, which, alongside Munich, was considered the most progressive and important center of landscape painting, Maurer finally returned to the Taunus in 1869. The simple life of the rural population, embedded in the idyllic, hilly landscape around Kronberg, became his central motif. The groups of old trees, here and there a stream or a forest pond traversed by clearings and meadows, offered the painter varied views and interesting lighting. Maurer effectively leaves the foreground in the shadows and accentuates the meadow as a bright perspective. As with the painters of Barbizon, the depiction of the imposing groups of trees in leaf plays a special role, which, together with the summery meadows, provide a color harmony in the most diverse shades of green. [KT]



616
Jakob Maurer
Heuernte im Süßen Gründchen bei Mammolshain, Um 1860.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,620
Sold:
€ 2,540 / $ 2,743

(incl. surcharge)