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Herdsman in Arcadian Landscape Poetic, probably Italian summer landscape, with wandering boy with dog, at the foot of jagged sandstone rocks on the lakeshore, romantic, glazed, partially slightly impasto genre painting in warm-toned colours, oil on canvas, ligatured monogrammed and dated "HK 1864" at lower right, partly concealed by the fold, possibly a work by Hermann Reichsfreiherr von Königsbrunn [cf. Monogrammlexikon Goldstein], about whom Wurzbach remarks in the "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich" (1864) "... In the Austrian Art Society only two oil paintings by him were exhibited, namely in November 1860: "Courtyard of an Indian Temple with the Sacred Fig Tree together with a Dagoba", and in September 1863: "Tank in Northern Ceylon", both attesting a significant talent for the landscape and the latter of such charming and eye-catching quality that it ... [against prominent competition]. ...", in our present painting the influence of Johann Fischbach, on whom Wikipedia notes "... Along with Moritz von Schwind and Ludwig Richter, Fischbach is one of the most respected representatives of the Austrian Biedermeier period, who, with great painterly sensitivity, depicted above all the cosiness, the dreamy and the cosy, but never lost touch with reality. In his constant search for an "intact world" and a perfect harmony between nature and man, he found these ideals of Romanticism and Biedermeier best realised in rural life. He ... paints fishermen, smugglers and hunters, shepherds and dairymaids in the landscape, without ever lapsing into the smoothness of salon-style painting. ...", minor retouches, beautifully framed in Florentine moulding, folded dimensions approx. 40 x 58 cm. Artist's information on Hermann von Königsbrunn: actually Hermann Reichsfreiherr von Königsbrunn, also Königsbrun Austrian lawyer, landscape painter, draughtsman and illustrator (1823 Radkersburg/Styria to 1907 Graz), initially destined to become a lawyer and studied law in Graz, where he was a private pupil in drawing under Josef Kuwasseg, then studied law at the Theresian Academy in Vienna, from 1845 in the Austrian civil service, in 1848 took part in the March Revolution in Vienna, in December 1848 dismissed from the civil service and fled to Munich, where he turned to painting and became a pupil of Leopold Rottmann in Munich, created copies after Eduard Schleich in Munich, 1849 stay in Graz and 1850 in Salzburg, where he joined Johann Fischbach, then walked to Bruck an der Mur and Graz, at the end of 1852 accompanied by the Styrian industrialist Franz Ritter von Friedau the Younger, together with the zoologist Ludwig Karl Schmarda, 10-month expedition to Greece, Egypt and Ceylon, then three years of further artistic training in Düsseldorf with the support of Franz Ritter von Friedau, was received during a stay in Berlin by the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV. and Alexander von Humboldt during a stay in Berlin, ca. 1856 return to Graz, undertook a two-month study trip to Corfu with a state scholarship, his "Great View of Gastouri" created here was purchased by Emperor Franz Josef, 1863/64 trip to Rome with the support of the Styrian State Committee, 1868 appointed professor at the Styrian State School of Art in Graz, active here until 1892, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Monogrammlexikon Goldstein, Constantin von Wurzbach "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", Fuchs, autobiography from 1894, Müller-Singer and Wikipedia.

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Herdsman in Arcadian Landscape Poetic, probably Italian summer landscape, with wandering boy with dog, at the foot of jagged sandstone rocks on the lakeshore, romantic, glazed, partially slightly impasto genre painting in warm-toned colours, oil on canvas, ligatured monogrammed and dated "HK 1864" at lower right, partly concealed by the fold, possibly a work by Hermann Reichsfreiherr von Königsbrunn [cf. Monogrammlexikon Goldstein], about whom Wurzbach remarks in the "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich" (1864) "... In the Austrian Art Society only two oil paintings by him were exhibited, namely in November 1860: "Courtyard of an Indian Temple with the Sacred Fig Tree together with a Dagoba", and in September 1863: "Tank in Northern Ceylon", both attesting a significant talent for the landscape and the latter of such charming and eye-catching quality that it ... [against prominent competition]. ...", in our present painting the influence of Johann Fischbach, on whom Wikipedia notes "... Along with Moritz von Schwind and Ludwig Richter, Fischbach is one of the most respected representatives of the Austrian Biedermeier period, who, with great painterly sensitivity, depicted above all the cosiness, the dreamy and the cosy, but never lost touch with reality. In his constant search for an "intact world" and a perfect harmony between nature and man, he found these ideals of Romanticism and Biedermeier best realised in rural life. He ... paints fishermen, smugglers and hunters, shepherds and dairymaids in the landscape, without ever lapsing into the smoothness of salon-style painting. ...", minor retouches, beautifully framed in Florentine moulding, folded dimensions approx. 40 x 58 cm. Artist's information on Hermann von Königsbrunn: actually Hermann Reichsfreiherr von Königsbrunn, also Königsbrun Austrian lawyer, landscape painter, draughtsman and illustrator (1823 Radkersburg/Styria to 1907 Graz), initially destined to become a lawyer and studied law in Graz, where he was a private pupil in drawing under Josef Kuwasseg, then studied law at the Theresian Academy in Vienna, from 1845 in the Austrian civil service, in 1848 took part in the March Revolution in Vienna, in December 1848 dismissed from the civil service and fled to Munich, where he turned to painting and became a pupil of Leopold Rottmann in Munich, created copies after Eduard Schleich in Munich, 1849 stay in Graz and 1850 in Salzburg, where he joined Johann Fischbach, then walked to Bruck an der Mur and Graz, at the end of 1852 accompanied by the Styrian industrialist Franz Ritter von Friedau the Younger, together with the zoologist Ludwig Karl Schmarda, 10-month expedition to Greece, Egypt and Ceylon, then three years of further artistic training in Düsseldorf with the support of Franz Ritter von Friedau, was received during a stay in Berlin by the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV. and Alexander von Humboldt during a stay in Berlin, ca. 1856 return to Graz, undertook a two-month study trip to Corfu with a state scholarship, his "Great View of Gastouri" created here was purchased by Emperor Franz Josef, 1863/64 trip to Rome with the support of the Styrian State Committee, 1868 appointed professor at the Styrian State School of Art in Graz, active here until 1892, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Monogrammlexikon Goldstein, Constantin von Wurzbach "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", Fuchs, autobiography from 1894, Müller-Singer and Wikipedia.

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