3923 - Eduard Weichberger, Scene in Fasano

Eduard Weichberger, Scene in Fasano View of a passageway between a wall and a building, with vegetation and a blue sky in the background; gouache on paper, signed, inscribed and dated ‘E. Weichberger/Fasano 1895”, lines by the artist mounted on the back of the frame, slightly yellowed, framed under a passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout opening approx. 17 x 13 cm. Artist’s biography: German landscape painter and etcher (1843, Krauthausen - 1913, Weimar); lived in Eisenach from 1848; studied at the Dresden Polytechnic from 1860 to 1861; 1861-68 at the Weimar Art School, studying under Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach until 1862, and under Alexander Michaelis and Max Schmidt from 1862 to 1868; spent summers in Italy and on the Baltic Sea, 1877-1906 a member of the Weimar Etching Society; received numerous awards, including a silver medal at the 1888 World’s Fair in Melbourne and in London in 1893, and the Knight’s Cross, 2nd Class, of the Saxon-Weimar Order of the White Falcon, Appointed professor in 1899; submitted works to numerous exhibitions; worked in Weimar; Source: Thieme-Becker, the internet and Scheidig, *Die Weimarer Malerschule*.