4486 - Max Sammet, Obergrainau with its church and the Zugspitze

Max Sammet, Obergrainau with its church and the Zugspitze An autumnal view of an idyllic high-mountain Alpine landscape with colourful trees and a glimpse of the village of Obergrainau in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen with its striking Church of St John the Baptist, set against the backdrop of the Zugspitze and the Wetterstein Mountains; a delicately glazed painting in warm tones, oil on cardboard, c. 1980, signed ‘M. Sammet’, slight signs of ageing, beautifully set in a gilded stucco frame, inner dimensions approx. 30 x 26 cm. Artist information: German landscape painter (1913 Rehau - 1992 Garmisch), studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts, lived in Munich, settled in Garmisch from 1935, exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich from 1942 to 1944; source: catalogues of the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich and the internet.