Carl Röchling (Saarbrücken 1855 - 1920 Berlin), ,Rastender Steinbrucharbeiter, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard, monogrammed lower right, 32 x 44 cm, in decorated gold molding, overall size: 36 x48 cm. Provenance: Werner Collection, Neunkirchen. Limit 270,- >> Military a. genre painter, studied in Karlsruhe a. Berlin, master pupil of Anton von Werner, one of the most famous battle and history painters at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, his painting "Admiral Seymour giebt bei dem Rückzuge auf Tientsin den Befehl: 'The Germans to the front!"" from 1902 became an international icon of the German Empire par excellence. Lit.: Thieme Becker.

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