4295 - Johann Jungblut, Winter Evening

Johann Jungblut, Winter Evening a path leading out of the town in the setting winter sun, with several background figures; on the left, a few birch trees rise out of the snow; an oil study in the style of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, oil on wood, signed on the reverse with the place name ‘Düsseldorf’, signs of age, in need of minor restoration, framed, inner dimensions 28.5 x 22 cm. Artist information: also known as Johann Jungbluth, German landscape painter and craftsman (1860, Saarburg near Trier - 1912, Düsseldorf); initially worked as a craftsman for Villeroy & Boch in Mettlach; a self-taught painter, active in Düsseldorf from 1885, undertook study trips to Norway and the Netherlands, famous for his finely executed landscapes reminiscent of Old Dutch painting, used numerous pseudonyms, including ‘Jan van Straaten’, ‘W. Kirberg’, ‘Johann Sander’ and ‘R. Hibler’; source: Thieme-Becker, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Bruckmann ‘Encyclopaedia of the Düsseldorf School of Painting’ and Wikipedia.