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Willy Friedrich Burger, "Alpweg mit Dent Blanche" barren, sunny high mountain landscape of the Valais Alps, with a distant view of the Dent Blanche from the north-west, slightly impasto landscape painting with a flat application of paint in finely coordinated colours, AKL comments: "... As a landscape painter, he mainly painted motifs from Italy, Morocco, England and the Swiss Alps. The feeling of the vastness and grandeur of the mountain world is expressed in the harmonious composition and warm colours, whereby his encounter with Ferdinand Hodler is very significant. ...", oil on canvas, c. 1940, signed "W. F. Burger" lower right, original artist's label on the reverse of the stretcher, here titled, signed and inscribed ""Alpweg mit Dent Blanche" W.F. Burger, Rüschlikon", also old owner's label "Robert Aeschbach, Löwenstr. 11 Zürich", originally framed, folded dimensions approx. 48 x 64.5 cm. Artist information: Wilhelm Friedrich Burger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, illustrator and poster artist (1882 Zurich - 1964 Rüschlikon), initially trained as a lithographer, then a student at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich, 1901-02 studied at the Karlsruhe Academy under Ludwig Schmid-Reutte, 1903-05 as a graphic artist in London, at the same time a student at the Royal Academy, 1906 in Switzerland, finally 1906-08 worked as an illustrator and graphic artist in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, from 1909 in Rome and Florence, returned to Switzerland in 1913 and worked in Rüschlikon as a landscape painter, illustrator and poster artist, undertook various study trips such as to Italy in 1921, to Spain in 1925 and 1926, to Morocco in 1934, to Egypt and Palestine (Jerusalem) in 1935, as well as to Algeria and southern France, participated in the world exhibitions in Milan (1906) and Brussels (1910), among others, which honoured him with a silver medal and a gold medal, worked in Rüschlikon/Canton Zurich, citizen of Zurich, source: Vollmer, AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Sikart, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Huber-Frauenfeld and Wikipedia.

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Willy Friedrich Burger, "Alpweg mit Dent Blanche" barren, sunny high mountain landscape of the Valais Alps, with a distant view of the Dent Blanche from the north-west, slightly impasto landscape painting with a flat application of paint in finely coordinated colours, AKL comments: "... As a landscape painter, he mainly painted motifs from Italy, Morocco, England and the Swiss Alps. The feeling of the vastness and grandeur of the mountain world is expressed in the harmonious composition and warm colours, whereby his encounter with Ferdinand Hodler is very significant. ...", oil on canvas, c. 1940, signed "W. F. Burger" lower right, original artist's label on the reverse of the stretcher, here titled, signed and inscribed ""Alpweg mit Dent Blanche" W.F. Burger, Rüschlikon", also old owner's label "Robert Aeschbach, Löwenstr. 11 Zürich", originally framed, folded dimensions approx. 48 x 64.5 cm. Artist information: Wilhelm Friedrich Burger, Swiss painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, illustrator and poster artist (1882 Zurich - 1964 Rüschlikon), initially trained as a lithographer, then a student at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich, 1901-02 studied at the Karlsruhe Academy under Ludwig Schmid-Reutte, 1903-05 as a graphic artist in London, at the same time a student at the Royal Academy, 1906 in Switzerland, finally 1906-08 worked as an illustrator and graphic artist in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, from 1909 in Rome and Florence, returned to Switzerland in 1913 and worked in Rüschlikon as a landscape painter, illustrator and poster artist, undertook various study trips such as to Italy in 1921, to Spain in 1925 and 1926, to Morocco in 1934, to Egypt and Palestine (Jerusalem) in 1935, as well as to Algeria and southern France, participated in the world exhibitions in Milan (1906) and Brussels (1910), among others, which honoured him with a silver medal and a gold medal, worked in Rüschlikon/Canton Zurich, citizen of Zurich, source: Vollmer, AKL, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Sikart, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Huber-Frauenfeld and Wikipedia.

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