Asta: 538 / 19th Century Art del 10 giugno 2023 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 650


650
Hans Thoma
Abend in der Schweiz II, 1916.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,800
Risultato:
€ 25,400 / $ 27,686

( commissione inclusa)
Abend in der Schweiz II. 1916.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. 80.5 x 95.5 cm (31.6 x 37.5 in).

• Large format landscape of the Swiss mountains, which particularly fascinated Thoma.
• Characteristic motif in which the special peculiarity of Thoma's painting becomes obvious.
• Landscapes by the artist are in the collections of the Alte Nationalgalerie, State Museums in Berlin, the Neue Pinakothek, Munich and the Albertinum, Dresden; the most important and largest Thoma collections are in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland (acquired in 2000, Neumeister, September 27, 2000).

LITERATURE: Cf. Henry Thode, Klassiker der Kunst: Hans Thoma, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1909, p. 457.
Neumeister Auktionshaus, Munich, September 27, 2000, lot 823 (with illu.).

Hans Thomas paintings fascinate in their own way, because they are so outside of tradition due to their very own motifs and painting style and speak their own language that seems to exist outside of the ordinary. They always seem to have a mysterious, timeless content that is typical of all of Thoma's motifs, be it in his mythological or fairytale stories or in the large and vast landscapes. Thoma began his artistic career in Basel and Düsseldorf, followed by a stay in Paris in 1868, where he was particularly impressed by the realistic works of the Barbizon school, which were created in deep connection with nature. A trip to Italy followed via Munich in the 1870s, before finally settled in Frankfurt. Here in the Taunus mountain, but also during several stays in his home region of the Black Forest, he developed his characteristic approach to the landscape, characterized by the unique simultaneity of the sublime and the idyllic. Here the view is raised above the human sphere with the small family in front of their farm over a lovely alpine landscape, where the white mountain massif rises with a single cloud floating in front of it behind dark and protective fir trees. Thoma was fascinated by Switzerland with its imposing peaks, and several trips took him to St. Moritz, Lucerne, Lake Lucerne and the Valais Alps, up into old age. Individual mountains such as the Rigi, the Pilatus, the Blümlisalp and the Lauterbrunner Valley awaken in him, as it were, spiritual "Zarathustran feelings" (Hans Thoma, Im Winter des Lebens, Jena 1919, p. 120). Thomas's paintings always exude a certain surreal, dreamlike atmosphere, oscillating on the fine line between reality and vision. [KT]



650
Hans Thoma
Abend in der Schweiz II, 1916.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,800
Risultato:
€ 25,400 / $ 27,686

( commissione inclusa)