.
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
Results of your search
Matches:
2/87 back 
| overview 
| continue 
| send e-mail 
| Survey of the artists
 |
3315
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Hauptmann, Karl
1880
«Herzogenhorn (Feldberg)». Summit cross in winter twilight against a pink shimmering cloudy sky.
Oil on cardboard. Signed lower left. Verso titled by a different hand, numbered «9046», inscribed with the dimensions and with the stamp of the painting supplies shop Hch. Buff,
H 41,
The summit cross on the Herzogenhorn, not far from Karl Hauptmann's refuge, lovingly titled «Molerhüsli», appears several times in his œuvre, among others in a pencil drawing made in 1925 (WVZ Hötzel-Dickel Z25-1) or in an oil painting from 1936 (WVZ Hötzel-Dickel G36-1). The cross motif in the present work, which is almost dramatically exaggerated, follows the Romantic tradition of depicting a crucifix in a mysteriously transfigured mountain landscape, as is known, for example, from the legendary «Tetschener Altar», a major work by the grand master of Romantic painting, Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840).
We would like to thank Dr. Ruth Hötzel-Dickel,
Provenance: private collection Rhineland.
Condition report 