3918 - Hermann Stockmann, View of Höglwörth Monastery

Hermann Stockmann, View of Höglwörth Monastery from the opposite side of the monastery lake, view of the monastery complex with the steeple of the monastery church, a realistic painting with a skilfully rendered reflection of the complex in the water, watercolour, signed lower right, framed behind a mat and glass, slightly browned, mat dimensions 32 x 27 cm. Artist information: German painter, draughtsman, commercial artist, designer and illustrator (1867, Passau - 1938, Dachau), in Munich from 1881, initially completing an apprenticeship as a decorative painter there, studied at the Munich Academy under Gabriel von Hackl from 1885 to 1894, 1889-94: master student under Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez; member of the Allotria artists’ society; contributor to the Munich magazine *Fliegende Blätter* for over 30 years; from 1896, contributor to *Jugend*; moved to Dachau in 1898; founder of the Dachau Museum Association and the Art Gallery; co-founder and honorary member of the Dachau Artists’ Association; In 1910, appointed professor at the Academy by Prince Regent Luitpold; received numerous honours; from 1927, an honorary citizen of Dachau; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the Luitpold Group Munich, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Register of the Munich Academy, Dressler, Wikipedia, Bruckmann ‘Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries’, Müller-Singer, Ries, Fleming, Reitmeier, *Dachau: A Picture Book of Art*; Thiemann-Stoedtner/Hanke, *Dachau Painters*; and an article by Dr Wilfried Hartleb.