4524 - Josef Wagner-Höhenberg, At the Notary’s

Josef Wagner-Höhenberg, At the Notary’s alternative title ‘Two Peasants Paying Rent’, seated at a table; the two peasants are being explained by the figure on the left what they have to pay; a very fine historicist genre painting with many small details such as the umbrella with a carved handle above the chair, the jug on the windowsill or the books in the top left-hand corner - a favourite motif of the artist, oil on canvas, signed lower right, mounted, restored, framed, inner dimensions 55 x 70 cm. Artist information: real name Wagner; artist’s name derived from his place of birth, “Wagner-Höhenberg” or “Wagner Höhenberg”, German portrait, genre and church painter (1870, Höhenberg - 1939, Munich?), studied at the Academy in Florence, member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, worked in Munich, source: Thieme-Becker, Dressler and the internet.