Trimburg Castle
Franz Ludwig Catel (Berlin 1778 - Rom 1856)
Lot-No. 6
Watercolour, 18 x 23 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. F. Catel 1834, on the reverse inscribed Burg Trimburg, min. foxing, framed under glass. - Main exponent of German-Roman landscape painting, worked initially in Paris, thereafter in Rome, where he was in close contact with the Nazarene movement, in 1818 he travelled Sicily with prince Galizin, member a. professor of the Berlin academy. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), München (Neue Pinakothek), Berlin, Hannover, Kopenhagen a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, exh. cat. "Der Landschafts- u. Genremaler F.L.C." (Rom, Casa di Goethe 2007) a. others.
Franz Ludwig Catel: Trimburg Castle
Franz Ludwig Catel (Berlin 1778 - Rom 1856)
Trimburg Castle
Lot-No. 6
Watercolour, 18 x 23 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. F. Catel 1834, on the reverse inscribed Burg Trimburg, min. foxing, framed under glass. - Main exponent of German-Roman landscape painting, worked initially in Paris, thereafter in Rome, where he was in close contact with the Nazarene movement, in 1818 he travelled Sicily with prince Galizin, member a. professor of the Berlin academy. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), München (Neue Pinakothek), Berlin, Hannover, Kopenhagen a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, exh. cat. "Der Landschafts- u. Genremaler F.L.C." (Rom, Casa di Goethe 2007) a. others.