Osmar Schindler "Im Kumtlampenschein". Around 1900. Osmar Schindler1867 Burkhardtsdorf - 1927 Dresden-Wachwitz. Oil on cardboard. Unsigned. Framed in a gold-coloured wooden ornamental frame with chipped metal overlay. Provenance: Dresden private collection; formerly the estate of Osmar Schindler. Osmar Schindler's "Im Kumtlampenschein" (gal. no. 2338) was long considered the artist's most famous and successful work. The painting has been in the Galerie Neue Meister of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 1901. Due to its great success, Schindler himself produced numerous adaptations of his work until the 1920s. Due to the framing, circumferential marginal lesions with slight losses of the painting layer. In the area of the coachman on the right minimal breaks in the painting layer. Dimensions: 43 x 75 cm, cm. 63 x 94. 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.