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River Valley with Cattle under old Oaks

Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann (Erfurt 1814 - Berlin 1889)


River Valley with Cattle under old Oaks

Lot-No. 188


Oil/canvas/masonite, 53 x 69 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. le. Ferd. Bellermann 1860, slightly rest. - Landscape painter, studied at the Weimar drawing school a. the Berlin academy under K. Blechen a. A.W. Schirmer, study trips through Germany, to Belgium, the Netherlands a. Norway, among others in company of P.C. Schreiber a. Fr. Preller the Elder, his accuracy in depicting the landscape as well as the details of single plants earned him a travel scholarship to Venezuala, after his return he became professor in 1857 a. in 1866 successor of Schirmer in Berlin, mediated by A.v. Humboldt the royal house of Prussia became one of his most important customers, exhibited in numerous German towns as well as on the Paris a. Vienna world fairs (1867 a. 1873), starting from an academic style he developed an easier manner of painting in his later years without giving up his precision. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal., Kupferstichkabinett), Potsdam, Erfurt, Schwerin, Celle, Altenburg. - Lit: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.

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Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann: River Valley with Cattle under old Oaks


Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann (Erfurt 1814 - Berlin 1889)

River Valley with Cattle under old Oaks

Lot-No. 188

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Oil/canvas/masonite, 53 x 69 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. le. Ferd. Bellermann 1860, slightly rest. - Landscape painter, studied at the Weimar drawing school a. the Berlin academy under K. Blechen a. A.W. Schirmer, study trips through Germany, to Belgium, the Netherlands a. Norway, among others in company of P.C. Schreiber a. Fr. Preller the Elder, his accuracy in depicting the landscape as well as the details of single plants earned him a travel scholarship to Venezuala, after his return he became professor in 1857 a. in 1866 successor of Schirmer in Berlin, mediated by A.v. Humboldt the royal house of Prussia became one of his most important customers, exhibited in numerous German towns as well as on the Paris a. Vienna world fairs (1867 a. 1873), starting from an academic style he developed an easier manner of painting in his later years without giving up his precision. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal., Kupferstichkabinett), Potsdam, Erfurt, Schwerin, Celle, Altenburg. - Lit: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.

River Valley with Cattle under old Oaks
River Valley with Cattle under old Oaks