4127 - Walther Witting, Mountain Landscape

Walther Witting, Mountain Landscape View across a lush green meadow towards a small wood, with a steep mountain range rising in the background beneath a lightly clouded sky; presumably a scene from the Giant Mountains; a slightly impasto landscape painting in pleasant colours, oil on cardboard laminated with linen, signed and dated ‘W. Witting 1921’ in the lower right-hand corner, traces of a dedication on the reverse, slight scratches, in need of cleaning, unframed, dimensions approx. 41 x 63 cm. Artist information: also known as Walter, whose full name was Walther Günther Julian Witting; German painter, graphic artist, author and craftsman (1864, Dresden - 1940, Dresden), a pupil at the Kreuzschule in Dresden; studied at the Dresden Academy from 1883 to 1887 under Leon Pohle and Friedrich Preller the Younger; had to abandon his studies in 1887 due to illness; studied under Max Thedy in Weimar from 1888 to 1890; in 1890, he submitted works to the exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London (awarded a large silver medal), subsequently moved to the Rhine and worked in Wiesbaden; in 1891, travelled to Paris and undertook a study tour through France, Belgium and the Netherlands; in 1894, spent time in Italy before returning to Dresden-Blasewitz, 1912: appointed Court Councillor; created numerous works for public representative buildings, including the Reichstag building in Berlin; member of the General German Art Cooperative, the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the Dresden Art Cooperative; worked in Dresden, Source: Thieme-Becker, Dressler and the internet.