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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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Winterauktionen 19.–20.11.2021
Spiro, Eugen (Eugene) school
1874 Breslau - 1972 New York.
Portrait Eugene Spiro. The artist, smoking a cigar, in front of one of his landscape paintings.
Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Verso on the stretcher a branding stamp of the US Art Canvas Co., New York. Verso on the back of the frame a printed collection label handwritten inscribed with the work's data and the provenance.
H 76,
This painting shows the artist Eugen Spiro, who was born in Breslau, sitting on a wooden armchair with a concentrated gaze absorbed in a booklet while he casually balances a cigar between his lips. By comparison with other (self-)portraits of the artist, one can conclude that he was depicted here around his 70th year. At this time, i.e. in the 1940s and early 1950s, he was living in New York and passing on his great talent in teaching to the next generation. In contrast to his self-portraits, in which Spiro predominantly seeks eye contact with the viewer, the pupil in this unsigned work has shown him in profile and added the painting dominating the background as a reference to the master's oeuvre, which is probably a French landscape by Spiro from the 1930s.
We would like to thank Mr Marco Zambon, Galerie von Abercron, Munich, for the kind remarks via
Provenance: according to the consignor purchased at Kuhlmann & Struck, Hamburg, in March 1996; since then private collection Hamburg and Markgräflerland.
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