As of Nov 13, 2024

Wilhelm von Kobell

Lot 100
Begegnung auf der Landstrasse, 1803
Watercolor

14.6 x 18.3 in (37.0 x 46.5 cm)

Lot 100
Begegnung auf der Landstrasse, 1803
Watercolor
14.6 x 18.3 in (37.0 x 46.5 cm)

Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 10,000
Auction: 15 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Dec 07, 2024
Auction number: 562
Auction name: 19th Century Art

Lot Details
Watercolor and ink pen. Signed left of the center in the bottom margin. On firm wove paper. 37 x 46.5 cm. , 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.
LITERATURE: Cf. Siegfried Wichmann, Wilhelm von Kobell. Monographie und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke, Munich 1970, no. 66 (illustrated).
Private collection, Hesse
Lot Details
Watercolor and ink pen. Signed left of the center in the bottom margin. On firm wove paper. 37 x 46.5 cm. , 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.
LITERATURE: Cf. Siegfried Wichmann, Wilhelm von Kobell. Monographie und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke, Munich 1970, no. 66 (illustrated).
Private collection, Hesse

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