4456 - Lothar Rudolf Meilinger, Scene near Berchtesgaden

Lothar Rudolf Meilinger, Scene near Berchtesgaden A summer valley floor with a church set against an imposing mountain backdrop; presumably a view of the parish church of St Sebastian in Ramsau in the Berchtesgadener Land, a slightly impasto, sketch-like, briskly executed and probably unfinished landscape painting with the underlayer partially visible, oil on plywood panel, signed and dated ‘Loth. Rud. Meilinger 1928", signs of age, beautifully set in a newer gilded frame, inner dimensions approx. 50 x 65 cm. Artist’s biography: German landscape painter (1887 Munich - 1935 Munich), a pupil of Maximilian Dasio, Robert Schleich, August Seidel, Adolf Heinrich Lier and Robert Engels; exhibited at the Munich Glaspalast and in exhibitions at the Neue Pinakothek; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the Munich Artists’ Cooperative; worked in Munich, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur ‘Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’, Bruckmann ‘Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries’, Glaspalast catalogues and Dressler.