4423 - Josef Haunstetter, Stormy Landscape

Josef Haunstetter, Stormy Landscape a dramatically darkened, stormy mountain landscape featuring a peasant couple standing beside a shelter, gazing at a boat with its crew on a raging mountain river, impasto painting in muted colours, oil on canvas and cardboard, c. 1900, signed ‘Josef Haunstetter’ lower left, old handwritten label on the reverse stating dimensions ‘67 x 63.5 cm’, signs of age, newly framed, Inner dimensions approx. 67 x 63.5 cm. Artist information: also known as Joseph Haunstetter, German landscape, still-life and genre painter, etcher, art teacher and restorer (1858, Munich - 1944), 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.