Sale: 562 / 19th Century Art, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 124001182


124001182
Wilhelm von Kobell
Begegnung auf der Landstrasse, Wohl um 1803.
Watercolor and ink pen
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 10,000

 
$ 8,800 - 11,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Begegnung auf der Landstrasse. Wohl um 1803.
Watercolor and ink pen.
Signed left of the center in the bottom margin. On firm wove paper. 37 x 46.5 cm (14.5 x 18.3 in), the full sheet.

• Brilliant composition bathed in Kobell's typical cool and clear light.
• Kobell attained his realistic style through numerous studies of nature.
• In 1792, he became court painter to the Elector Carl Theodor of Bavaria and was appointed professor of landscape painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1814.
• Together with Johann Georg von Dillis and Johann Jakob Dorner, he is considered the founder of landscape and genre painting of the Munich School
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse.

LITERATURE: Cf. Siegfried Wichmann, Wilhelm von Kobell. Monographie und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke, Munich 1970, no. 66 (illustrated).




124001182
Wilhelm von Kobell
Begegnung auf der Landstrasse, Wohl um 1803.
Watercolor and ink pen
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 10,000

 
$ 8,800 - 11,000

Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.