Carl Maria Nikolaus Hummel

Carl Maria Nikolaus Hummel "Fir forest with boulders, motif from the Bavarian forest". Wald". 1869. Carl Maria Nikolaus Hummel1821 Weimar - 1907 ibid. Oil on canvas. Signed on the left "C. Hummel" and dated. Framed in a broad profiled gold-coloured wooden frame. Verso on the stretcher u.r. an old handwritten paper label inscribed in ink: "Waldlandschaft aus dem bairischen Wald. Prais (?) 700 Thaler (?) Professor C. Hummel in Munich" as well as a historical paper label u.l., numbered "269". Listed in: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Contribution to the History of Art. Vol. I.2, p. 621, No. 83. Carl Hummel is undoubtedly one of the most famous students of Friedrich Preller the Elder, who had a special relationship with Goethe in Weimar and taught as director of the "Fürstliche freyen Zeichenschule" there. With great talent and virtuosity Hummel developed the landscape painting of his teacher in the "Mediterranean canon of classical influence" modifying further. He subtly adopted elements of the new stylistic trends, such as plein air painting, but consistently adhered to his fundamental style of a traditional observation of nature in the sense of Goethe and Preller. With Preller, Hummel undertook numerous study trips to inspiring landscapes, which he captured organically and imaginatively in his paintings. The present painting shows, in virtuoso perspective, a slightly elevated fir forest with a stream in the foreground on the left, while on the right the viewer has a view of a wide forest landscape with distant mountain ranges. The light is guided by a subtle painterly differentiation of luminous and broken colour tones in the sunlit and shaded areas of the landscape, which are covered with a fine misty haze. Literature: Hermann Mildenberger: "Painting full of depth, calm and cheerfulness". On the role of Carl Hummel within the history of Weimar painting in the 19th century. In: Grisebach GmbH (ed.): "Carl Hummel. Works from the Artist's Estate." Berlin 2018. Restored condition. The right half of the picture with vertical linear retouching, slight differences in level. Verso the running traces of the former damage painting. Losses of painting layer at the lower edge of the picture closed with line retouching, mi. reaching to approx. 15 cm into the depiction. With even age craquelure. In the sky partially glazed old retouching. Measures: 129 x 182 cm, overall 142.5 x 195 cm. Carl Maria Nikolaus Hummel 1821 Weimar - 1907 ibid Son from the marriage of the composer and court conductor Johann Nepomuk Hummel with Elisabeth Röckel. Until 1841 he studied at the 'Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weimar' under Ernst Friedrich Preller, the elder, with whom he also undertook study trips to Holland, Norway, Rügen and Tyrol. 1842-46 study trips to Italy with longer stays in Rome, Capri and Sicily. 1855 Guest of the hereditary prince Georg von Meiningen at his Villa Carlotta at Lake Como. 1869 Appointed professor at the drawing school in Weimar. 1869 travels to Corsica. 1905 extensive exhibition of his work in the Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar on the occasion of his diamond wedding anniversary. Hummel's landscape paintings, whose motifs are mostly taken from the Tyrolean and Italian Alps, are characterized by a fine feeling for nature and a romantic-poetic conception. Works by the artist are in museums in Berlin, Leipzig, Weimar, Stuttgart, Meiningen and Petersburg.