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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2000
Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Le Corbusier, i.e. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand
«LC 4» chaise longue.
Cassina, Milan late 1960s. Steel frame, lacquered in black, tubular steel, chrome-plated, and black pony fur on a spring suspension. Signed on the steel tube «Le Corbusier», numbered 3580 and inscribed «LC 4».
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Architect and designer Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965), his cousin and architect Pierre Jeanneret (1896 - 1967) and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903 - 1999) designed the «LC 4» chaise-longue in 1928, when this then started to be produced by Cassina from 1965 onwards; this highly functional «resting machine» became a design classic of the modern functionalism, adapting the proportions of the body. The manufacturer's stamp is only used from the higher five-digit production numbers onwards. Earlier versions are just signed, inscribed and numbered.
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