Two masterful original gouaches by renowed German landscape and and animal painter Anton Weinberger (1843 Munich - 1912 Wiesbaden). The artist studied since 1860 in the Art Academy in Munich, worked as teacher for drawing in Leipzig and Petersburg (1872), later studied in Berlin by Paul Meyerheim. In 1884 he lived in vienna , where he worked as court painter (dog portraits), then until 1888 in Munchen, bis 1902 - in Wiesbaden. His works situated in the Castle zu Gera, in the hunting castle Hummelshain by Kahla, in museums of Mainz and Wiesbaden.
Literature: Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999
Inscription: each signed and dated 1895 lower right
Technique: each watercolour on paper. Original period frame.
Measurements: each unframed w 16 1/3" x h 9 1/2" (41,5 x 24 cm), framed w 20" x h 13" ( 50,5 x 33 cm)
Condition: very good |