Herold - probably Franz-Josef Herold (1904-1986), the painter Franz-Josef Herold, born in Kassel in 1904, worked as an art teacher in Mainz, Offenbach and Aachen, "Südliche Küstenlandschaft", oil/canvas, brisk, impressionistic painting style, sunny landscape with pine trees, probably on the southern Italian coast, in the left background you can see a wide mountain landscape with houses, in the foreground a medieval town fortification with staffage, signed lower right, traces of age, partial craquelure, traces of age, approx. 54x68cm, heavy, magnificent frame, decorated with flower garlands, gilded, approx. 80x94,5cm

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