4304 - Martin Martin, attributed, Summer Landscape with a Church

Martin Martin, attributed, Summer Landscape with a Church probably a view of the pilgrimage church of St Anna in Harlaching, which today forms part of Munich; slightly impasto painting, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘M 1819’ in the lower left-hand corner; the Nagler Monogram Lexicon comments: ‘... In his spare time [sic.], he henceforth painted landscapes, views of villages in the Munich area, of Upper Bavarian mountain towns, etc. ... In such paintings from 1820-1838, the letter ‘M’ (as a monogram) appears alongside varying years. ...”, on the reverse of the stretcher, a partly illegible inscription reading “Martin Martin fit [sic. - actually fecit = made] Munich 1819, monogram, bottom left …”, signs of age, in an old frame, inner dimensions approx. 21 x 26 cm. Artist information: German landscape painter (1792 or 1798, Munich - 1865, Munich), studied drawing under Prof. Hermann Josef Mitterer and was a pupil of Dillis; largely self-taught in the arts, at times a porcelain painter at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory; from 1820 an official (court civil servant) at the Royal Court Marshal’s Office in Munich, later serving there as secretary and staff treasurer, whilst also working as a painter and draughtsman; lived in Munich, Source: Thieme-Becker, Monogrammlexikon and Künstlerlexikon Nagler, S. Wichmann, Bruckmann and Eugen Roth, *Damals in Oberbayern*.