Oil on panel , firmly mounted in the frame. Signature and date scratched into the moist paint in lower right. Once more signed and dated, as well as titled and inscribed on the reverse. Visible area: 52.5 x 76.5 cm. Incl. frame: 66 x 88,5 cm.
[SM].
- Wolfgang Mattheuer is considered one of the leading German landscape painters of the 20th century. - His works range between Critical Realism and classic landscape painting of German Romanticism. - In the 1970s, he increasingly painted allegorical landscapes infused with an ambiguous symbolism.
LITERATURE: Stefanie Michels (ed.), Wolfgang Mattheuer. Bilder als Botschaft, catalogue raisonné of paintings 1950-2003, 2017, no. G 71/5.

Privatsammlung Hessen. Seitdem in Familienbesitz

In good condition. A few small brown spots. Firmly mounted in the frame.