4490 - Hans Schilcher, On Lake Ammersee

Hans Schilcher, On Lake Ammersee A summery view, past the jetty and boathouses, of Lake Ammersee with sailing boats, set against an imposing mountain backdrop beneath a strikingly cloudy sky, impressionist landscape painting with impasto, partly executed using a broad palette knife technique, oil on canvas, c. 1940, signed ‘H. Schilcher’ lower left, signs of age, framed behind glass, inner dimensions approx. 55.5 x 77 cm. Artist information: born Johann Evangelist Schilcher, German landscape, portrait and still-life painter and graphic artist (1879, Wessobrunn-Zellsee - 1951, Dießen/Ammersee), 1885-90: attended primary school in Wessobrunn; from 1890: attended secondary school in Weilheim; subsequently trained as a miller with a view to taking over his father’s mill in Zell, in 1904, the mill was sold and he moved to Dießen; from 1905, a pupil at the painting and drawing school run by the landscape painter Alexander Steinbrecht in Dießen, 1906: Pupil of Walter Thor in Munich; from 1907: studied at the Stuttgart Academy under Christian Landenberger; further training with Albert Stagura in Munich; exhibited at the Munich Glaspalast; worked in Dießen on the Ammersee, Source: Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*; Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries*; Müller-Singer, Paul Rachinger, *Encyclopaedia of the Ammersee Painters*; and Dressler.