919 - Landscape Painter, Abstracted Alpine Landscape with Snow-capped Peak in Ornate Frame, 20th Century

Landscape Painter, Abstracted Alpine Landscape with Snow-capped Peak in Ornate Frame, 20th Century Oil on canvas, unsigned, 20th century, abstracted alpine landscape, snow-capped mountain peak against a blue-grey sky with light veils of cloud, below it hills painted in sweeping strokes and a foreground in grey, brown, violet and rust red with yellow highlights, good age-appropriate condition, retouching, partial craquelure, image 39.5x30 cm (HxW), framed in a gold-coloured ornate frame with relief leaf frieze, frame slightly chipped, frame width 5.5 cm Mountain painting matured in the 19th century into a genre of its own, whose pictures were readily bought by travellers and long served as a status symbol and proof of the mountain journey. Painters such as Edward Theodore Compton, in Munich from 1869, created hundreds of mountain subjects and shaped the image of the high mountains in mountain painting into the 20th century; this small mountain picture in its ornate frame continues the alpine landscape as a cabinet picture with abstracted forms.