1346 - Carl Hummel (1821, Weimar – 1907, ibid.)

Carl Hummel (1821, Weimar – 1907, ibid.) Alpine Landscape with a Tree Trunk Lying Across a Stream A landscape study of the Alps, created around 1845–50, depicting a bridge over a torrential stream against a cloud-shrouded mountain panorama. Hummel studied under Friedrich Preller the Elder at the Weimar School of Drawing from 1834 to 1841 and became a professor at the newly founded Weimar Art School in 1860. He is considered one of the great 19th-century painters of plein air oil studies, which he produced over the years during numerous trips to Norway, Italy, and the Alpine region and which are now among the landscape artist’s most sought-after works. Many of these works were transferred from his estate to the Weimar Castle Museum in the 20th century, where they went largely unnoticed for a long time and were only recently cataloged and, in some cases, sold. They bear witness to the artist’s profound sense of nature and his extraordinary ability to capture light and atmosphere. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. On the reverse, on a newer stretcher, a stamp from the Weimar Castle Museum estate. 32.5 cm x 47 cm. Framed. Lit.: Catalog for the exhibition “Carl Hummel. Works from the Artist’s Estate,” with essays by Hermann Mildenberger, Cella-Margareta Girardet, and Florian Illies, Berlin and Munich 2017/18, ill. 4. Provenance: from the artist’s estate at the Schloßmuseum Weimar (until 1993). Oil on paper, laid down on canvas. Estate stamp on the reverse.