(QP712)
The category Old Paintings, Landscape With Flock and Shepherd, offers an Oil Painting On Canvas from the 19th century.
Old paintings of landscapes, a serene pastoral scene immersed in the quiet of nature, with a flock of grazing sheep,
accompanied by a shepherd and his dog in a natural rural landscape.
The work shows refined naturalistic landscape painting, with attention to the details of the animals, the rendering of light
and the perspective depth of the wide river landscape in the background.
The composition is harmonious and typical of the 19th-century European realist tradition. The brushwork is careful and measured,
capable of sensitively rendering the materiality of the sheep's fleece and the softness of the grass.
The antique work is signed in the lower left corner by J. Kornbeck, a German landscape painter.
Hermann Julius Kornbeck (1839–1920), a German landscape painter, was born in Winnenden into a wealthy family: his father Johann Franz Wilhelm Kornbeck was a high court official.
From a young age, he showed a strong inclination for drawing and art. Around the age of 25, he dedicated himself completely to painting and, in 1864–1865, attended Heinrich Funk's landscape painting school at the Kunstschule in Stuttgart, where he created his first major painting depicting the village of Baach.
He also studied in Munich and Düsseldorf, which were vibrant centers of landscape painting at the time.
During these years, he developed his realistic-naturalistic art, favoring plein air painting—that is, painting directly from nature—a choice that characterized his entire career. An artwork of his is exhibited at the Stuttgart museum.
The oil painting is fitted with a beautiful original gilded frame. German school.
The antique painting and frame have been professionally and accurately restored.
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Bibliography: E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculptures Dessinateurs et Graveurs.
www.bisgart.com
Bisgart Collection
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Canvas size: 127 x 70 cm
Size with frame: 157 x 102 cm
Depth: 12 cm
Weight: 24 Kg
German figurative art | 19th-century landscape painting | Antiques | 19th-century Old Landscapes |
Romantic rural scene | Barbison | Impressionism | Antique art collecting
