4281 - Konrad Grob, "Peasant Kitchen"

Konrad Grob, "Peasant Kitchen" an elderly woman cooking at a stove; in the background, two young men standing in the doorway waiting for their meal; to the right, kitchen utensils and a cat; sketch-like execution; signed in the bottom right-hand corner with the letter ‘M’ for Munich, on the reverse, remnants of an old exhibition label; the artist’s name repeated on the canvas; canvas mounted on a backing board; signs of age; framed; inner dimensions 38 x 47 cm. Artist information: also known as Conrad Grob, Swiss lithographer, etcher, illustrator and painter of historical and genre scenes (1828, Andelfingen, Canton of Zurich - 1904, Munich), spent his childhood in Veltheim; 1842-45: apprenticeship as a lithographer with Schönfeld in Winterthur; from 1845: years of travel and work as a lithographer in St. Gallen, with periods in Reutlingen, Ulm, Munich, Constance and Innsbruck; finally three years in Verona and then ten years in Naples; from 1865, studied at the Munich Academy, where he was a pupil of Arthur Ramberg from 1870 to 1873; subsequently worked as a freelance artist in Munich, submitting works to exhibitions in Vienna, London, Sydney, Basel, Bern, St Gallen, Zurich and Solothurn; worked in Munich, with regular study visits to Switzerland in the Hasli Valley, the Wehn Valley, Urnerboden and Merligen on Lake Thun; source: Thieme-Becker, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Brun, ‘Swiss Artists’ Encyclopaedia’, Sikart, the register of the Munich Academy, Boetticher, Müller-Singer, Seubert, Bruckmann, ‘Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries’ and Wikipedia.