Sale: 546 / 19th Century Art, Dec. 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 353


353
Christian Landenberger
Junge mit Hut, Um 1910.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,560
Sold:
€ 7,620 / $ 8,153

(incl. surcharge)
Junge mit Hut. Um 1910.
Oil on cardboard.
Lower left signed. 59 x 40.3 cm (23.2 x 15.8 in).

We are grateful to Dr. Heinz Höfchen for the kind expert advice. The work is listed in the addendum vol. of the catalogue raisonné.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Hermann-Josef Bunte Collection, Bielefeld (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Inspiration Ammersee, Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen, Hausen ob Verena, July 11 - November 14, 2004.
Sammlung Bunte. Positionen der Klassischen Moderne, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, February 25 - May 28, 2007; Museum Lyonel Feininger, Quedlinburg, December 1, 2007 - March 2, 2008; Städtische Galerie, Böblingen, March 16 - June 29, 2008.
Adolf Hölzel und sein Kreis. Positionen der Klassischen Moderne aus der Sammlung Bunte, Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen, Passau, August 9 - September 28, 2008.
Sammlung Bunte. Positionen der Klassischen Moderne, Kunsthalle Aschaffenburg, Jesuitenkirche, May 29 - September 6, 2009; Ernst Barlach Foundation, Güstrow, September 27, 2009 - January 17, 2010; Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, January 24 - April 5, 2010.
Wege in die Klassische Moderne. Sammlung Bunte, Schloss Achberg + Neues Schloss Kißlegg, April 17/18 - July 25/18, 2010.
Das Glück in der Kunst. Expressionismus und Abstraktion um 1914. Sammlung Bunte, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, March 21 - August 3, 2014.
Die Rheinlande. Zeitschrift und Künstlervereinigung 1900 bis 1922, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, November 30, 2013 - February 23, 2014.
Hermann Stenner und sein Lehrer Christian Landenberger – Werke um 1910, Kunstmuseum Albstadt, February 19 - June 18, 2017.
Hermann Stenner und seine Zeit, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld, January 20 - June 10, 2019, p. 219, cat. no. 107.

Christian Landenberger was one of the painters in Germany who became involved in Impressionist open-air painting at an early stage. After beginning his studies at the Stuttgart Art Academy, he continued at the Munich Art Academy from 1883 to 1885. Shortly afterwards, however, he dropped out of university and turned to a non-academic, direct approach to painting, in which he pursued new paths, particularly in landscape painting. Finally, in 1892, he would be a founding member of the Munich Secession and regularly showed works at the exhibitions until 1916. With the founding of a private painting school in 1895, this Impressionist influence also had impact on his students, such as Hermann Stenner, with whom he went on excursions into the great outdoors, especially into the idyllic Danube valley. Summer painting sojourns had repeatedly taken him to Lake Constance and Lake Ammersee, where the surroundings offered him the perfect conditions for the realization of light effects and the unspoiled unity of man and nature in his works. He also observed the natural movements and postures of the children without any artificiality. In 1905, Landenberger was appointed professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy. He was one of the main representatives of Impressionism in southern Germany, particularly with his motifs of children in the summer countryside. [KT]



353
Christian Landenberger
Junge mit Hut, Um 1910.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 8,000 / $ 8,560
Sold:
€ 7,620 / $ 8,153

(incl. surcharge)