4514 - Richard Thierbach, Stolberg Castle

Richard Thierbach, Stolberg Castle A view of Stolberg Castle, densely surrounded by trees and towering on its rocky outcrop, beneath a lightly clouded sky; in the foreground, the view is framed by vegetation, from the 13th century until 1945, the castle was the ancestral seat of the Counts and Princes of Stolberg; a slightly impasto landscape painting, oil on canvas, c. 1900/early 20th century, signed ‘Thierbach’ in the lower right-hand corner, signs of age, retouching, in a wide profile frame, inner dimensions approx. 48.5 x 54 cm. Artist’s biography: German landscape painter and lithographer; initially trained as a lithographer in Nordhausen; studied from 1880 to 1885 at the Weimar School of Art under Theodor Hagen, from 1885 to 1886 under Eugen Bracht in Berlin, followed by further training in Munich; worked initially in Berlin, and from 1890 in Stolberg in the Harz Mountains; submitted works to numerous exhibitions, including, from 1886, the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy, and from 1900 the Glaspalast in Munich; member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft; source: Thieme-Becker and Dressler.