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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
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3290
Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Romanticist landscape painter
France 1st half
Farmhouse thatched with straw on the track near the village pond.
Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Verso stamp of the artist's supplies store Alphonse Giroux, Paris, twice. Verso on the back of the frame indistinctly inscribed.
H 44,
Alphonse Giroux (1776 - 1848), named on the stamps of the canvas, was a versatile entrepreneur who worked in Paris as a painter, art restorer and ebonist, among other things, and whose cabinetmaking business flourished during the era of the Bourbon kings Louis XVIII and Charles X. His restoration work included the renovation of the Notre-Dame Cathedral. One of his sons, André Giroux (1801 - 1879), embarked on a career as a landscape painter and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1825.
Provenance: Fischer, Lucerne, auction 409 H, 24.11.2010, lot 1149; since then private collection Schluchsee.
Invoice: Fischer, Lucerne, 25.11.2010, invoice amount 3357,10 CHF (ca. 3101 €), in copy.
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