4496 - Hermann Schmitzbonn, Harvest Landscape in the Mountains

Hermann Schmitzbonn, Harvest Landscape in the Mountains A summer view across a harvested field with straw dummies, set against a steep, imposing high-mountain backdrop, impasto painting using a palette knife technique, oil on canvas and stretcher frame, c. 1950, signed ‘Schmitzbonn’ lower right, signs of wear, unframed, dimensions approx. 71 x 80.5 cm. Artist information: German landscape and portrait painter (1903 Duisburg - 1960 Agra in Ticino, Switzerland), studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under Max Clarenbach, 1939-57 member of the Düsseldorf artists’ association “Malkasten”, worked in Düsseldorf and, from 1944, in the Eifel region; source: Vollmer, Bruckmann, *Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule* and Saur Bio-Bibliographisches Lexikon.