838 - Richard Thierbach, Harz Landscape near Stolberg, the Lude in the Ludegrund with spruces, dated 1921

Richard Thierbach, Harz Landscape near Stolberg, the Lude in the Ludegrund with spruces, dated 1921 (1860 Stolberg/Harz to 1931 Stolberg/Harz), oil on canvas, signed lower left, inscribed verso "Thierbach Stolberg 1921" and "Ludegrund", the Lude between overgrown banks, tall spruce trunks on the slope to the left, deciduous trees in backlight to the right, the water with reflections of light, good condition commensurate with age, retouching mainly at the edges, image 71x49.5 cm (HxW), framed, frame with minor knocks, frame width 7 cm Richard Thierbach (1860 to 1931) was born in Stolberg in the Harz, completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Nordhausen and, with a scholarship, studied from 1880 to 1885 at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar under Theodor Hagen, then in 1886/87 under Eugen Bracht in Berlin. After years in Weimar, Munich and Berlin he returned to Stolberg in 1897 and painted almost exclusively Harz motifs; his oeuvre comprises more than 700 works. He exhibited in Vienna, Berlin, Munich and at the World's Fair in Chicago; his estate is held by the Harzmuseum Wernigerode. The Lude is a seven-kilometre-long Harz stream that rises north-west of Stolberg; Thierbach also depicted the Lude valley in a painting in the Harzmuseum Wernigerode.