1390 - Ascan Lutteroth (1842, Hamburg – 1923, ibid.)

Ascan Lutteroth (1842, Hamburg – 1923, ibid.) On Lake Maggiore A light-filled view, rendered in the artist’s characteristic, airy local style, looking out from the shore near Baveno across the gently rippling water toward the nearby Isola dei Pescatori, with the tower of the Church of San Vittore. A charming view by the prominent Hamburg painter, who trained in Geneva as a student of Alexandre Calame and, from 1864 to 1867, under Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Academy. From 1868 to 1870, Lutteroth resided in Rome and undertook extensive study trips throughout Italy. Based in Berlin between 1870 and 1877, he eventually returned to his hometown of Hamburg, where he gained a distinguished reputation as a landscape painter. Watercolor on handmade paper. Signed lower right with the location “Baveno” and dated (18)87. Viewing dimensions: 34.5 cm x 49 cm. Framed. Friedrich von Boetticher mentions, under No. II./5.-7., three watercolors of Lake Maggiore that were exhibited at the 56th exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1883, and points out that one of these works, titled “Baveno,” was acquired by Count Bülow von Dennewitz of Dresden through the Saxon Art Association in 1887. This could refer to the present sheet, although the date (18)87 does not correspond to the exhibition date of the 56th Berlin Academy Exhibition and may have been added later during the sale through the Saxon Art Association. Lit.: Boetticher, Friedrich von: Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1, Leipzig 1948, pp. 945ff., cf. Nos. II./5–7. Watercolor on laid paper. Signed with the location “Baveno” and dated (18)87.