Null Osswald, Karl (1925-1972) 
Group of trees, no year, watercolour.

Several n…
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Osswald, Karl (1925-1972) Group of trees, no year, watercolour. Several naturally grown trees on a hill in soft spring light. Inheritance stamp. 40 x 28 cm, in passepartout and frame 70 x 52 cm.

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Osswald, Karl (1925-1972) Group of trees, no year, watercolour. Several naturally grown trees on a hill in soft spring light. Inheritance stamp. 40 x 28 cm, in passepartout and frame 70 x 52 cm.

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Fritz Osswald, Farmstead behind Trees On a sunny autumn day, the viewer's gaze falls through an already almost bare group of trees onto a farmstead, which is illuminated by the radiant autumn sun shining from the upper right edge of the picture, Osswald applied the colours to the canvas with energetic brushstrokes, sometimes unmixed and impasto, sometimes in dabs, skilfully capturing the autumnal yet bright and sunny mood and conveying the impression of an impression spontaneously captured by the artist's hand, oil on canvas, 1st quarter of the 20th century. Quarter of the 20th cent, signed "Fritz Osswald" lower right, label fragment "Moderne Galerie Thannhauser" from Munich with inventory number "322" on the reverse of the stretcher, the address given in Theatinerstraße 7 was the gallery's headquarters from 1909 to 1928, which is why the work can be dated to this period, in any case to the period up to 1928, until the National Socialists seized power, the Jewish Thannhauser family was one of the most renowned art dealers in Germany, the fact that Justin Thannhauser exhibited this painting in his Munich branch speaks for its quality, frame modern, folding dimensions approx. 70 x 60 cm. Artist information: Friedrich Osswald, also known as Oßwald, Swiss landscape painter (1878 Zurich - 1966 Starnberg), initially a pupil at the Zurich and Munich schools of applied arts, studied at the Munich academy under Nikolaus Gysis and Wilhelm von Diez from 1897-1906, 1907-08 spent time in Italy, subsequently lived in Munich and worked for the Munich magazine Jugend, 1913 appointed to the Darmstadt artists' colony and worked there until 1919, 1919 moved to Horgen near Zurich, from 1925 based in Starnberg, member of the Reich Association of German Visual Artists, from 1904 supplied the Munich Glaspalast, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Sikart and register of the Munich Academy.