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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2011
Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Klinger, Max
1857 Leipzig - 1920 Großjena.
«Intermezzi - Opus IV». Rad. Op. IV. 12 Compositions.
1881. Suite of twelve aquatint etchings on Chine appliqué, mounted on copperplate cardboard. Each numbered lower right in the plate in Roman numerals and inscribed «Max Klinger» lower left. The first and the last sheet additionally signed lower right in the plate within the depiction and dated 1880 resp. «comp 1879. rad. 1881.». Loose sheets in original half-linen folder with typographic title, table of contents and closing ribbon.
Comes with «An die Schönheit (to beauty)» - Opus XIII (sheet 12)
H 45 resp. 63,
Complete portfolio of Klinger's most famous series of etchings, consisting of «Bär und Elfe (bear and fairy)», «Am Meer (by the sea)», «Verfolgter Centaur (pursued centaur)», «Kämpfende Centauren (fighting centaurs)», «Mondnacht (moonlit night)», «Bergsturz (landslide)», «Simplici Schreibstunde (Simplici writing session)», «Simplicius am Grabe des Einsiedlers (Simplicius at the hermit's grave)», «Simplicius unter den Soldaten (Simplicius among the soldiers)», «Simplicius in der Waldeinöde (Simplicius in a forest wasteland)», «Gefallener Reiter (fallen horseman)» as well as «Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Cupid, death and the afterlife)». Published by Theo. Stroefer's Kunstverlag, Nuremberg 1881.
With the title «Intermezzi», Klinger, himself an outstanding pianist, deliberately chose the reference to music. Just as intermezzi in operas or plays initially represented interludes between the major plot lines, they became independent as character pieces in the
Provenance: private collection Lake Constance.
Catalogue raisonné: Singer 52 - 63 and 241 (An die Schönheit).
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