4451 - Gusztav Magyar-Mannheimer, Pine Forest

Gusztav Magyar-Mannheimer, Pine Forest View of a pine forest in summer, framed by a view through a pine tree in the foreground, looking to the left and upwards; clouds in the background; very impasto-like painting executed with broad brushstrokes; oil on canvas, first half of the 20th century, signed lower right, old illegible customs stamp on the reverse of the canvas, slight signs of storage, frame minimally damaged, inner dimensions 43 x 53.5 cm. Artist information: Hungarian painter and illustrator (1859 in Pest - 1937 in Budapest), studied at the academies in Budapest and Munich under Sándor Wagner and Ludwig von Löfftz; later a master student of Gyula Benczúr; as a studio assistant to Hans Markat, he assisted him with the lunette paintings in the Stiegerhaus at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Source: General Artists’ Encyclopaedia Online.