4444 - Adolf Körber, Summer Farm

Adolf Körber, Summer Farm View of a rustic farmhouse with a wooden shingle roof and a statue of the Virgin Mary in bright sunlight; in the background, a castle complex on a high mountain ridge; painted in a glazed or slightly impasto style with the underlying surface visible in places, oil on canvas, c. 1940, signed ‘Adolf Körber’ lower right, information from Toman on the reverse, minor signs of ageing, framed, inner dimensions approx. 56.5 x 66.5 cm. Artist’s biography: Czech painter (1887, Prague - 1967, Jestřebice [Jestrebitz]), son of the publisher Pavel Körber; studied at the Prague Academy under Vlaho Bukovac and František Ženíšek; subsequently worked as an assistant to Adolf Liebscher the Younger, with whom he decorated various churches - such as the chapel of the Prague Maternity Hospital and the churches in Zlonice and Ratenice in Central Bohemia - until the First World War; at the same time, he worked freelance as a portrait and landscape painter; source: Saur’s ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Toman and the internet.