Original watercolour was executed in 1907 by famous German mountain painter, illustrator, Alpinist and conqueror of highest mountain tops in Africa, Asia and Caucasus Ernst Heinrich Platz ( 1867 in Karlsruhe -1940 in Munich). 

Full biography of Ernst Platz read in Wikipedia 
under following link: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Platz#:~:text=Ernst%20Heinrich%20Platz%20(*%2013,deutscher%20Bergmaler%2C%20Illustrator%20und%20Alpinist.


This rare watercolour depicts view to Rhätikon mountains from Wormser Hütte ( in English: mountaineering refuge). The Wormser Hütte is in Austrian province Voralberg 
and Rhätikon mountains situate in 3 Alpine lands: Austrian Voralberg, Lichtenstein and Switzerland.

The father of Ernst Platz was a geologist travelling in the wild, he aroused enthusiasm for the mountains in Ernst Platz. He studied architecture 
for six semesters at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1887/90, [1] but then dropped out and moved to Munich, where he devoted himself exclusively 
to painting and mountaineering. After private studies with Julius Exner (act, portrait), he went to the Academy of Arts 1891-1894 for three years, where he 
studied classical painting with Professor Alexander von Wagner. Wagner advised him to test his skills in nature (Pleinair painting).

When both essay and illustrations were included in the yearbook of the "German and Austrian Alpine Association," this reinforced his turn 
to painting and mountaineering. In addition to the good-selling landscapes, he liked to put the people in the mountains in the foreground. 
They were also the focus of those first two works, which he exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace from 1893: “Memento Mori” and the ” Climber in the Limestone Alps”.
 In October 1889, the African researcher, geographer and publisher Hans Meyer climbed Africa's highest mountain, Kibo (Uhuru Peak or, under German colonial rule, 
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze) in the Kilimanjaro massif, at 5,895 m, for the first time together with the alpinist Ludwig Purtscheller.
 In 1898 he traveled again to Kilimanjaro for further research in the fields of volcanology and glaciation as well as the survey of tropical high mountains. 
Platz accompanied him, took part in the second ascent of Kibo from the north via the Hans Meyer Scharte and brought numerous pictures and sketches from his 
first big mountain trip abroad back to Munich. However, he contracted malaria during the trip, which limited his mountaineering activities for three years.
 Hans Meyer used some of the images to illustrate his book Der Kilimanjaro, published in 1900. Travel and studies. A striking 3,852 m high individual peak 
in the Kilimanjaro Mountains consisting of basaltic fragments and lava coatings was named “Platzkegel” after the painter. The name was initially lost after 
the former German colony came under English ownership. The new colonial rulers, unaware of the origin of the name, translated “Platz” as “Place”. In this way, 
the summit was given the name “Cone Place”. Current scientific publications again use the name “place cone”.

Inscription: signed, dated 1907 and titled in German: ”Rhätikon von Wormser Hütte”, lower left.

Technique: watercolour on paper, matted and framed.

Measurements: only image w 13 3/4" x h 7 3/4" (37 x 17,5 cm), matted and framed w 21 1/2 " x h 16 1/2" (55 x 35,5 cm).

Condition: very good .