Osmar Schindler "Anacapri". 1905. Osmar Schindler1867 Burkhardtsdorf - 1927 Dresden-Wachwitz Oil on thin, dark primed painting cardboard. Unsigned. Dated "10.V.05" and titled u.r.. Framed in a wide, profiled, light and partially gold coloured wooden frame. Provenance: Dresden private collection; formerly the estate of Osmar Schindler. Cf. motivic: "Country house on Capri". 1905. oil on cardboard, illustrated in: Heike Biedermann, Andreas Dehmer (eds.): Osmar Schindler in the Dresden Gallery. Dresden 2011. illustrated p. 39. "Cypress in Capri". 1905. oil on cardboard. Corners bumped and with small losses of painting layer. Marginal areas with several small holes and marks from tearing. Pastosities inconspicuously pressed and with isolated missing parts. U.Mi. small brownish stains and isolated adhering particles on the image surface. One varnish spot (ca. 1 x 1 cm) mi. Verso several superficial scratch marks as well as larger losses of the upper paper layer at the margins and mi. Measures: 54.5 x 34 cm, overall 67.5 x 47 cm. Osmar Schindler 1867 Burkhardtsdorf - 1927 Dresden-Wachwitz 1882-90 Studies at the Dresden academy of arts under Friedrich Preller the Younger, Ferdinand Pauwels and Leon Pohle. Afterwards he works as a freelance artist. Travels abroad to Belgium, Holland, France and Italy. 1900-24 teacher at the Dresden academy of arts, 1903 appointment as professor. Head of the modelling class and of a painting hall. Member of the 'Deutscher Künstlerbund'. Schindler created numerous wall, window and ceiling paintings in Saxon churches, e.g. in the Dresden Annenkirche.