6179 - Eitner, Ernst

Eitner, Ernst "Deeply Snow-Covered" (Hummelsbüttel). Oil on canvas. 61 x 73 cm. Signed “E Eitner” lower right; signed again on the reverse; titled on the stretcher and labeled twice with “39784.” The artist’s view from the window of his studio in Hummelsbüttel, a district in northern Hamburg, looks out onto a garden deeply covered in snow, whose wintry stillness he captures with a loose brushstroke and naturalistic color palette. An atmospheric landscape by the Hamburg Impressionist, who trained at the Academy in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber beginning in 1886. Eitner was among the artists supported by Alfred Lichtwark, with whom the first director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle sought to establish a plein air painting school in Hamburg, modeled after the French Impressionists. Provenance: Private collection, Lower Saxony. - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is listed in the catalog only in exceptional cases. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.