6068 - Dittenberger, Gustav

Dittenberger, Gustav The Madonna and Child with the Young St. John and Angels in a Landscape. Oil on wood. 50.5 x 47 cm. Signed and dated “Gustav Dittenberger 1820” on the left edge of the painting. Hans Gustav Dittenberger von Dittenberg, known simply as Gustav Dittenberger, was one of those 19th-century German history painters whose artistic development was significantly shaped by the Munich art scene of the Early Romantic period. After initially training with Friedrich Rottmann and Jakob Roux in Heidelberg, Dittenberger joined Peter von Cornelius’s studio in Munich in 1817, where he worked until 1822. This painting, which dates from the period of Dittenberger’s training under Cornelius, embodies the ideal of Nazarene art. From this milieu, Dittenberger adopted the idealized conception of the human figure, the clear linear draftsmanship, and the view of painting as a means of moral and religious expression—all of which are vividly expressed in this painting. Provenance: Hans Wolfgang Capler von Oedheim (1870 Kochendorf – 1917 Stuttgart, according to the adhesive label on the reverse). Private collection, Saxony. - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not specified in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.