Null Wilhelm Velten (St. Petersburg 1847 - 1929 Munich), ,Markttreiben vor einer…
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Wilhelm Velten (St. Petersburg 1847 - 1929 Munich), ,Markttreiben vor einer Kleinstadt, oil on wood, signed lower right, 15 x 24 cm, quickly and unerringly captured oil study of Velten's preferred motif, under glass in wide gold molding with black inlay, overall size: 39 x 48 cm. Limit: 450,- >> Genre painter, pupil of the St. Petersburg and Munich academies, was resident in Munich, see: TB, Münchner Maler im 19. Jh.

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Wilhelm Velten (St. Petersburg 1847 - 1929 Munich), ,Markttreiben vor einer Kleinstadt, oil on wood, signed lower right, 15 x 24 cm, quickly and unerringly captured oil study of Velten's preferred motif, under glass in wide gold molding with black inlay, overall size: 39 x 48 cm. Limit: 450,- >> Genre painter, pupil of the St. Petersburg and Munich academies, was resident in Munich, see: TB, Münchner Maler im 19. Jh.

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Wilhelm Velten, Jäger am Sturzbach Ultravagant high mountain landscape with a hunter, by a mountain stream falling into the valley, in front of a towering mountain backdrop, impasto landscape painting with broad brushstrokes in restrained, tonal colours, oil on canvas, c. 1880, signed and inscribed "W. Velten München", relined, restored, framed in a newer, very beautiful matching gilt frame, rebate dimensions approx. 91 x 76 cm. Ultravagant high mountain landscape with a hunter, by a mountain stream falling into the valley, in front of a towering mountain backdrop, impasto landscape painting with broad brushstrokes in restrained, tonal colours, oil on canvas, c. 1880, signed and inscribed "W. Velten München", relined, restored, framed in a newer, very beautiful matching gilt frame, rebate dimensions approx. 91 x 76 cm. Artist info: German-Russian genre painter. Genre painter (1847 St. Petersburg - 1929 Munich), studied 1867-69 at the St. Petersburg Academy, from 1869 studied at the Munich Academy, here from 1870 pupil of Wilhelm von Diez, later professor at the Munich Academy, from 1890 member of the Dachau artists' colony, represented among others in the Fine Arts Acad. Buffalo, the Neue Pinakothek and the Städtische Galerie München as well as the Staatsgalerie Prag, member of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and the Münchner Sezession, active in Munich, from 1890 regular stays in Dachau and Etzenhausen, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Benezit, Dressler and Matrikel der Akademie München, "Dachauer Maler - Die Kunstlandschaft von 1801-1946", Boetticher, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19./20th century", Müller-Singer and Wikipedia.