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Professor Hermann Dischler

25th September 1866 – 20th March 1935

Hermann Dischler was born on the 25th of September in 1866 in Freiburg i.Br. He received his artistic training in the art school in Karlsruhe, he was student of Gustav Schönleber. Thereafter he was engaged as a painter in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald area.

1894, after he finished his studies, he built himself an artist’s workroom in Freiburg i.Br. At this time he went on a lot of trips and his trusty camera followed him everywhere. Five years later he started to number and comment his artworks, which he collected in 29 «Bildbüchern (books of pictures)».

In the winter months from 1905 to 1907 he stayed in the Todtnauer Hütte, where a lot of his oil studies arise.
The snowy winter landscapes became his typical theme and he called himself «Schneemoler (snowpainter)». 1917 he received his professorship by Grand Duke Friedrich II.

In 1927 he had an exhibition with artists like Curt Liebich, Julius Heffner, Wilhelm Nagel, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer a.o., they called themselves «Die Schwarzwälder (the Black Forests)». He died on the 20th of March in 1935 in Hinterzarten. Today his works are extremely appreciated because the snowy landscape present the untouched nature.

Lit: Exhibition Catalogue Augustiner Museum, Freiburg i.Br., 1993

Professor Hermann Dischler

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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Lerch, Joseph Wilhelm attr.
1817 Freiburg i.Br. - 1901 ibid.
Panorama of the city of Freiburg i.Br.
2nd half 19th C. Watercolour and opaque white over pencil on thin brownish paper. Unsigned. Verso on the back of the frame an art print of the Kunstsalon Straetz with a detail of the watercolour as well as with the printed artist's and work's data.
H 40,5, W 129 cm (frame). Gilt frame.
For those who are interested in the urban development and history of Freiburg in the 19th century, the so-called «Lerchplan (Lerch map)» in the Freiburg city archives with inventory number 103 is well known. It bears the name of its creator and was commissioned by the municipal council in 1852 as a bird's-eye view of Freiburg as it expanded beyond the medieval city limits. Presumably close in time, Lerch, who modestly saw himself as an «ordinary draughtsman» in contrast to his academically educated artist colleagues, painted the present unfinished watercolour, which provides an accurate portrait of his hometown with a focus on the old town, the emerging Wiehre and Herdern. Its topographically detailed depiction satisfied the need of the time, when photography was still in its early stages, for vivid images. Many art lovers are familiar with the watercolour in its central section, as it was reproduced by the Kunstsalon Straetz as an anniversary print. Lerch quoted after: Berent Schwineköper, Joseph Wilhelm Lerch (1817 - 1901) und seine Freiburger Panoramabilder, in: Schau-ins-Land, 90th Annual, 1972, p. 151.
Provenance: Kunstsalon Straetz, Freiburg i.Br., private collection Black Forest.

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starting price: 1500,- EUR