Gauermann, Friedrich (Miesenbach near Vienna’s Newtown 1807 – Vienna 1862). Upper Lake and Fischunkel Alp near Berchtesgaden. With cottages and rich livestock scenery in front. With herdsgirl and milker. Etching in outline by Carl Ludwig Friedrich Viehbeck (1769 – Vienna 1827). 46 x 54.5 cm.

Thieme-Becker XIII, 263 f. + XXXIV, 335. – One of just 23 etchings after Gauermann in additionally rare impression  before  the letter and standing for Gauermann’s creative beginning as he did not like “anymore to paint just the view enlivened by ‘accessories’ … but the living detail of nature in which landscape, man, and animal blend into

the  homogeneous  whole  of  nature .

Already a landscape of 1823 animated with livestock in front shows how G. tried to inspire the form of the old Netherlandish masters with new life. As pioneer of the Vienna landscape naturalism he made himself a name … in 1826”. – Small watermark. – Two small marginal tears backed.
Offer no. 11,263 / EUR  424. / Export price EUR  403. (c. US$ 589.) + shipping

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