4438 - Josef Rolf Knobloch, Pond at the Edge of the Forest

Josef Rolf Knobloch, Pond at the Edge of the Forest An autumnal scene by a pond surrounded by trees and meadows in a flat landscape, with the faint silhouette of the Alps on the horizon, a thickly painted landscape in muted colours, oil on cardboard, first half of the 20th century, signed and inscribed ‘J. Rolf Knobloch München", minor imperfections, framed in a Munich moulding approx. 9 cm wide, viewable dimensions approx. 47.5 x 58.5 cm. Artist’s biography: German landscape painter and writer (1891, Bohemian Kamnitz [Ceská Kamenice] - 1964, Munich), a pupil at the Liebwerda Art School; studied at the Technical University of Munich from 1911, where he eventually turned to painting; largely self-taught as an artist; influenced by the plein air painters Eduard Schleich the Elder and Adolf Lier, by Impressionism and the Barbizon School; subsequently worked as a freelance artist in Munich; from 1915 onwards, he exhibited at the Glaspalast; member and, for many years, first president of the Munich artists’ association ‘Die Juryfreien’ and the ‘Freie Ausstellung’, Member of the Bavarian Artists’ Association, the Munich Economic Association of Visual Artists and the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany; source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries*, Müller-Singer and the internet.