Carl Robert Kummer, Forest Edge in the Evening Light. About 1830/1840. Carl Robert Kummer1810 Dresden - 1889 ibid. Oil on strong paper, mounted on cardboard. Unsigned. Verso with the paper label of the art dealer Friedrich Axt, Dresden from 1936. On it in pen with a confirmation of authenticity by Rudolf Axt. An old adhesive label with numbering in pen "E 134" o.l. as well as inscribed in lead "Rob Kummer" o.mi. In a gold-coloured, classicist frame with corner applications. The painting is registered in the unpublished supplement to the WVZ Nüdling. We thank Dr. Elisabeth Nüdling, Fulda, for her kind information. Painting board somewhat curved.Tiny spots on the surface, especially in the sky. Tiny painting layer flaw at the right tree trunk and at the lower right corner. Varnish slightly darkened in the fold area. Measures: 32.4 x 24.6 cm, cardboard 33.3 x 25.6 cm, overall 47 x 39.1 cm. Carl Robert Kummer 1810 Dresden - 1889 ibid. German painter. Godson and pupil of Caspar David Friedrich. 1826-29 studied at the Dresden academy under Carl August Richter, since 1829 in the studio of Johann. Ch. Clausen Dahl. 1832-37 study trip to Italy, Dalmatia and Montenegro, 1851 stay in Scotland, 1859 in Portugal and 1868 in Egypt. Participated in the foundation of the 'Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft' as well as in the board of the 'Hermann-Stiftung', which supported Saxon artists. Since 1848 honorary member of the Dresden academy. 1859 appointment as professor. Works by Kummer can be found, among others, in the Dresden Galerie Neue Meister and in the Städtisches Museum zu Leipzig.