Detro, Alexander - copy after Spitzweg - born 1873 Pinerolo, copy after CARL SPITZWEG (1808-1885), "Der Besuch des Landesvaters", oil/wood, arrival of a carriage in Innsbruck with staffage of people, signed and inscribed "Copie nach Spitzweg" lower left, minimal traces of age, approx. 34x25cm, frame bumped approx. 49x42.5cm. Detro was based in Munich, he exhibited with the Munich Secession and in the Glaspalast, the original (around 1875) is in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Neue Pinakothek Munich. Literature: Th-B., Dressler

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