4491 - Hans Schilcher, Marina on Lake Ammersee

Hans Schilcher, Marina on Lake Ammersee A summery view across the water with boats moored at the jetty; in the background, a church on the shore - likely a depiction of St Alban’s Church in Dießen; slightly impasto painting; oil on canvas and hardboard, circa 1940, indistinctly signed ‘H. Schilcher’ in the lower right-hand corner, signs of ageing, framed behind glass and a passe-partout, passe-partout dimensions approx. 35 x 42 cm. Artist information: real name Johann Evangelist Schilcher, German landscape, portrait and still-life painter and graphic artist (1879 Wessobrunn-Zellsee to 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.