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Fritz Müller-Schwaben, Sonnenspitze mit Bergdorf in Tirol On a slightly cloudy summer day, a dairymaid leads her sheep to pasture in a mountain village at the foot of the imposing backdrop of the Tyrolean Sonnenspitze, warm impressionist painting with skilful use of light and partly virtuously blurred contours, oil on canvas, around 1920, signed lower right "Fritz Müller-Schwaben.", on the reverse of the frame label of the Stuttgart art dealer "ALFRED HIRRLINGER", inscribed "Fritz Müller-Schwaben" in ink and titled "Sommer im Gebirge", on the stretcher stamp "J. Eisenmann Mal-Leinen München", lower right with small loss in the canvas, in need of cleaning, in bronzed moulding with floral decoration of the time, this with bumps, folded dimensions approx. 70 x 100 cm. Artist information: German painter and graphic artist (1879 Mainz - 1957 Munich), initially a pupil at the Kunstgewerbeschule Straßburg, studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Raupp from 1906, member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, active in Munich, source: Thieme-Becker, Dressler, Matrikel der Akademie München and Internet.

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Fritz Müller-Schwaben, Sonnenspitze mit Bergdorf in Tirol On a slightly cloudy summer day, a dairymaid leads her sheep to pasture in a mountain village at the foot of the imposing backdrop of the Tyrolean Sonnenspitze, warm impressionist painting with skilful use of light and partly virtuously blurred contours, oil on canvas, around 1920, signed lower right "Fritz Müller-Schwaben.", on the reverse of the frame label of the Stuttgart art dealer "ALFRED HIRRLINGER", inscribed "Fritz Müller-Schwaben" in ink and titled "Sommer im Gebirge", on the stretcher stamp "J. Eisenmann Mal-Leinen München", lower right with small loss in the canvas, in need of cleaning, in bronzed moulding with floral decoration of the time, this with bumps, folded dimensions approx. 70 x 100 cm. Artist information: German painter and graphic artist (1879 Mainz - 1957 Munich), initially a pupil at the Kunstgewerbeschule Straßburg, studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Raupp from 1906, member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, active in Munich, source: Thieme-Becker, Dressler, Matrikel der Akademie München and Internet.

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