1317 - Friedrich Hohe (1802 Bayreuth – 1870 Munich)

Friedrich Hohe (1802 Bayreuth – 1870 Munich) Moonlit Landscape with a View of Garatshausen Castle and a Fisherman’s Cottage on Lake Starnberg A late Romantic landscape painted with striking effect in its rendering of light. A rare oil painting by Hohe, created probably around 1857–1860, who was primarily active as a lithographer. Hohe studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts beginning in 1820 and traveled throughout the Kingdom of Bavaria, Switzerland, and, in 1826, Italy with Carl Rottmann. It was not until the last decades of his life that Hohe also worked as a landscape painter, exhibiting three works in Munich in 1857. Oil on canvas; signed lower left with the location “Munich.” 51 cm x 87 cm. Probably original frame. In the summers of 1868 and 1869, Empress Elisabeth (“Sisi”) of Austria stayed at Garatshausen Castle with her court. Oil on canvas. Signed with the location “Munich.”