4280 - Georg Geyer, attributed, Alpine Landscape

Georg Geyer, attributed, Alpine Landscape a reddish stone church, set amidst a wooded mountain landscape with a river, beneath a slightly cloudy sky; on the right-hand edge of the picture, a woman on a hike carrying a basket; landscape painting with a slightly impasto texture, oil on canvas, lined, signed and dated ‘Geyer (1)876’ in the lower left-hand corner, numbered ‘4391’ on the reverse, signs of age, retouching, framed, inner dimensions approx. 38 x 52.5 cm. Artist’s biography: Austrian landscape and genre painter and Orientalist (1823 Vienna - 1912 Vienna); studied at the Vienna Academy under Thomas Ender, Josef Mössmer and Franz Steinfeld; exhibited at the Vienna Academy’s exhibitions in the St. Annahof; probably resided in North Africa or the Orient around 1872-73; exhibited works with Oriental motifs at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair; member of the Vienna Artists’ Society; worked in Vienna; source: Thieme-Becker, Saur’s ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Wurzbach’s ‘Biographical Encyclopaedia of the Austrian Empire’, Boetticher, Müller-Singer, Seubert, Müller-Klunzinger, Fuchs, Dressler and the internet.