4313 - Johann Jakob Reinhardt, Forest Landscape by a Lake at Sunset

Johann Jakob Reinhardt, Forest Landscape by a Lake at Sunset A central view of the rising, luminous full moon over a forest lake; on the lake’s shore, in the right-hand foreground, a hunter with a dog gazing at the spectacle of the moon; on the left side of the lake, a fallen tree; slightly impasto painting; oil on canvas; signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner (18)94, signs of age, retouching, frame dented, inner dimensions 50.5 x 64 cm. Artist information: also known as Johann Jacob Reinhardt, German landscape painter (1835, Mannheim - 1900 or 1901, Nuremberg); initially intended to become a merchant, he studied from 1852 at the Düsseldorf Academy under Joseph Wintergerst and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer; travelled with Schirmer to Northern Italy and Switzerland; subsequently a pupil of Andreas Achenbach and Oswald Achenbach; at the instigation of Carl Friedrich Lessing, spent a year in Karlsruhe; thereafter worked as a freelance artist in Mannheim, later appointed court painter to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in Coburg, honoured by the Duke with the Order of Arts and Sciences; last listed in the Coburg address book in 1875; submitted works to the Academy Exhibition in Dresden from 1877 onwards, documented as living in Nuremberg from 1890 to 1901; a member of the Düsseldorf artists’ association ‘Malkasten’ from 1856 to 1865, Source: Thieme-Becker, Grieb *Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon*, Saur Bio-Bibliographisches Lexikon, Bruckmann *Düsseldorfer Malerschule*, Müller-Singer, Seubert and Boetticher.