6107 - Mayer, Friedrich

Mayer, Friedrich On the Way to Runkelstein Castle near Bolzano. Oil on wood. 21.5 x 29.3 cm. Signed "F. Mayer." lower right; on the reverse, on a label written in old-style pen: "Friedrich Mayer in Munich, [...] / Runkelstein Castle near Bolzano in South Tyrol," and further inscribed in pencil as "Schleißheimer / Gallery / Romantic," the wooden panel bearing the embossed number "99." Friedrich Mayer, a landscape painter trained at the Munich Academy, found his subjects primarily in Old Bavaria and South Tyrol in the 1860s (see Boetticher, Malerwerke, vol. 1/2, p. 999). As a member of the Munich Art Association, he found numerous buyers there, including international ones. Three of his paintings were acquired by the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. Runkelstein Castle, depicted here at the entrance to the Sarntal Valley, features the largest surviving secular fresco cycle from the Middle Ages, created around 1400. - 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.