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Hermann Herzog (1832-1932), Landscape with Waterfall and Angler
Estimate:
$25,000 - $45,000
Sold
$22,500
Live Auction
2023 Jackson Hole Art Auction
ARTIST
Hermann Herzog
Description
Title: Hermann Herzog (1832-1932), Landscape with Waterfall and Angler
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/8 x 42 3/8
Frame dimensions: 35 3/4 x 49 3/4 x 2 1/2
Notes: Born 1832 in Bremen, Germany, Hermann Herzog began his studies in 1948 at the famed Düsseldorf Academy. Deeply influenced by his teachers, who urged him to travel in search of scenic beauty and inspiration, he trained while traveling extensively throughout Europe. His travels led him to paint sweeping Romantic landscapes, depicting unique views of fjords, lakes, waterfalls and mountains.
Herzog exhibited paintings in Germany and France, winning a prize at the Paris Salon in 1863. Distinguished patrons of his work included Queen Victoria, the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia and other members of royalty. While still living in Germany, Herzog sent paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy’s annual exhibitions from 1863 to 1869, establishing an American market for his work.
After immigrating to the United States in 1869, he settled in Philadelphia and traveled widely throughout the eastern United States, painting landscape scenes of Niagara Falls, the Chesapeake Bay, New Hampshire’s White Mountains and the Maine coast.
By the mid 1870s he ventured west and discovered the rugged, mountainous landscapes of Utah, Oregon and California’s Yosemite Valley. Throughout his career, he remained steadfast in his romantic view of the world, his canvases painted in a polished, realistic manner, imbued with luminous light.
Today his work can be found in several museum collections, including the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. Hermann Herzog continued to paint until his death in 1932 at the age of 99.
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/8 x 42 3/8
Frame dimensions: 35 3/4 x 49 3/4 x 2 1/2
Notes: Born 1832 in Bremen, Germany, Hermann Herzog began his studies in 1948 at the famed Düsseldorf Academy. Deeply influenced by his teachers, who urged him to travel in search of scenic beauty and inspiration, he trained while traveling extensively throughout Europe. His travels led him to paint sweeping Romantic landscapes, depicting unique views of fjords, lakes, waterfalls and mountains.
Herzog exhibited paintings in Germany and France, winning a prize at the Paris Salon in 1863. Distinguished patrons of his work included Queen Victoria, the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia and other members of royalty. While still living in Germany, Herzog sent paintings to the Pennsylvania Academy’s annual exhibitions from 1863 to 1869, establishing an American market for his work.
After immigrating to the United States in 1869, he settled in Philadelphia and traveled widely throughout the eastern United States, painting landscape scenes of Niagara Falls, the Chesapeake Bay, New Hampshire’s White Mountains and the Maine coast.
By the mid 1870s he ventured west and discovered the rugged, mountainous landscapes of Utah, Oregon and California’s Yosemite Valley. Throughout his career, he remained steadfast in his romantic view of the world, his canvases painted in a polished, realistic manner, imbued with luminous light.
Today his work can be found in several museum collections, including the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. Hermann Herzog continued to paint until his death in 1932 at the age of 99.
Condition
The painting appears to be in good condition for its age with faint craquelure throughout, the paint layer is stable overall. The painting has been examined under blacklight and reveals the following inpainting: scattered areas at lower right side, frame edge upper right, a 3 1/2 inch area above the right side mountain, scattered areas throughout the sky from the center of the painting to the right side, scattered areas at upper and lower left near the frame edge, and areas around the center tree. The frame is in very good condition.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed and dated lower left: H Herzog 1868
Provenance
From a Private Collection
