Mountain  landscape with castle ruins, probably, in South Tyrol, from where the author, famous Austrian mountain, landscape painter, graphic artist and Alpinist Robert Zinner (1904 Vienna - 1988 Munich) took motives for his paintings.

In 1936, Zinner received the commission for a poster about the newly built motorways in Germany. The futuristic poster was published in German and English versions for the 1936 Olympic Games.

From 1944 to 1946 Zinner lived in Ramsau. In 1947, Zinner and the art historian Josef Weingartner were commissioned to write a book about South Tyrol. Robert Zinner temporarily moved his residence to Bolzano to work on the book. During this time he maintained a studio in the garden of the Hotel Greif. In addition to hundreds of illustrations, large-scale oil paintings of the South Tyrolean Dolomites were also created. The book was published in 1950 under the title “South Tyrol: Landscape, Art, Culture”.

In the following years, Zinner worked, among other things, in the Wachau, in southern Germany and in Ramsau. He created numerous oil paintings and watercolors, among others. from the Dachstein mountains. In 1955 the book Lake Garda was published, written with the art historian Franz Hieronymous Riedl, in 1956 Meran and the Burggrafenamt, written with Josef Weingartner, in 1957 The Wachau: romantic Danube country, in 1965 Romanticism in Austria and in 1969 Between Rothenburg and Lake Garda.

From the end of the 1960s Zinner lived in Mondsee. Robert Zinner painted numerous paintings until his death on January 22, 1988. His last book, Picturesque, Romantic South Tyrol, was published in 1986.

Works by Robert Zinner are now in the Historical Alpine Archive of the Alpine Clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol.

Source: on-line Wikipedia, lexicon off Austrian painter by Prof.H.Fuchs, Vienna, 1975.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on cardboard, original frame.

Measurements: unframed w. 27 7/8” x h 19 1/3”  (63 x 49,3 cm), framed w. 27 1/3” x h. 22” (69,5 x 56 cm).