Klassische Landschaft. 1937.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated lower right. With a dedication and an inscription "Entwurf für Klass. Landschaft Grosses Bild in Leipzig (Thomas Gymnasium?)" on the reverse. 27 : 35 cm (10,6 : 13,7 in). The Munich painter and etcher studied at the Applied Arts School and at the Munich Art Academy with Otto Seitz. Waldmüller specialised in landscape painting. His pictorial idiom is condensed; he tended increasingly towards simplification, reducing everything to essentials yet he never resorted to a stylising approach. The present work is probably a late one since it shows this process brought to perfection. [HL]

PROVENIENZ: Professor Wilhelm, Akademie Nuremberg.
Private collection South Germany.

Good overall impression. Slight colour losses on the edges. Isolated tiny brown stains.