oil on canvas, 35 × 39 cm, frame, signed. PD ST
Professionally restored.Adolf Kosárek was the greatest landscape painter of the so-called Haushofer School, which
was a landscape class at the Prague Academy, which in 1844-1866
led by Bavarian professor Maxmilián Haushofer after Antonín Mánes.
In addition to Kosárek, Julius Mařák, Bedřich Havránek and
and Leopold Stephan. He excelled in drawing care and preparation
of composing a studio-type painting - a rare
preserved in the National Gallery is a convolute of about twenty small oil paintings, where we can see
the preparatory stage of a ??nal painting. This was usually at least a metre in length.
format, but more than once twice that. The chamber-like but carefully executed
painted painting of the Cottage dating from around 1865 shows
this painter as a mature landscape painter who had been trained by Haushofer
enriched his training considerably with influences from the then-famous Düsseldorf School.
Stephan has a characteristic conception of trees in a circular manner up to
ornamental look, he chooses dense greens and browns, the whole is unified
with a golden varnish. He belongs to the contemporary stream of European cosmopolitan
landscape romanticism.
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67th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass, 16th June 2024
67th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass
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