4285 - Joseph Haunstetter, Boy amongst Trees

Joseph Haunstetter, Boy amongst Trees a building on the left; in the background, sloping terrain with a view of a church tower and a mountain lake near Höglwörth; slightly impasto painting, early 20th century, unsigned, titled ‘Höglwörth near Anger’ on labels on the reverse, signed and numbered ‘No. 239’ on the cardboard by another hand, along with a handwritten note stating ‘signed by his daughter, Maria Baumgartner’, plus a framing label by Ludwig Weyland, Munich; oil on painting board; minimal signs of ageing; newly framed; inner dimensions 36 x 48 cm. Artist information: also known as Joseph Haunstetter, German landscape, still-life and genre painter, etcher, art teacher and restorer (1858, Munich - 1944), a pupil at the Latin School, later trained at the Munich School of Applied Arts, studied at the Munich Academy from 1875, member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, worked in Munich; source: Dressler 1930, register of the Munich Academy, Busse and the internet.