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
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Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Zügel, Heinrich von
1850 Murrhardt - 1941 Munich.
«Gelbe Kuh (yellow cow)». Well-built yellow cattle on fresh, lush green pasture ground.
Oil on canvas, relined. Signed lower right and dated 1875. Verso and on the stretcher numbered probably by a different hand «[...]Z 35» (probably for Eberhard Zahn).
H 35,
Heinrich Zügel, who was granted noble status in 1907, studied at the academies in Stuttgart and Munich, where he had a lively exchange with his role model, the renowned animal painter Anton Braith (1836 - 1905). Strongly influenced by the rural environment of his youth as the son of a shepherd, farm animals such as sheep and cattle played a central role in his œuvre. His loose, impressionistic painting style and his ability to reproduce the light and the atmosphere in the pastures and fields made him an extremely sought-after master of animal painting around 1900.
Provenance: studio of the artist at Wolkenhof, Murrhardt; collection Eberhard Zahn, St. Wolfgang; private collection North Baden.
Catalogue raisonné: Diem 148.
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