Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Albin Mattenheimer.
German ( b.1823 - d.1875 ).
Self Portrait, Munich 1875.
Oil On Canvas.
Signed & Dated Lower Left.
Image size 34.1 inches x 26.6 inches ( 86.5cm x 67.5cm ).
Frame size 42.5 inches x 34.8 inches ( 108cm x 88.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the German artist Albin Mattenheimer and is dated 1875.
The painting is presented and supplied in its original period frame (which is shown in these photographs).
The frame has benefitted from cleaning, restoration and reinforcement, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval.
The canvas and the painted surface have been professionally restored whilst in previous ownership, probably within the last 20 years. This includes a couple of repairs to perforations in the canvas which are of good material integrity.
This antique painting is in good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed and dated 1875 lower left.
Albin Mattenheimer (1823–1875) was a German painter associated with the artistic traditions of Bavaria during the nineteenth century. Born in Bamberg in 1823, he belonged to the distinguished Mattenheimer family of artists, several generations of whom worked as painters, restorers, and teachers in southern Germany. The family had established a notable artistic reputation from the eighteenth century onwards, particularly through Andreas Theodor Mattenheimer and his descendants, who were active in Bamberg, Munich, and other Bavarian cultural centres.
Mattenheimer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, one of the most important artistic institutions in Germany during the nineteenth century. He subsequently worked in Munich and is generally regarded as a landscape painter. His surviving recorded works include views of Nuremberg and other Bavarian subjects, reflecting the enduring popularity of topographical and landscape painting in the period.
He is often associated with the circle of painters known as the Chiemseemaler, artists inspired by the scenery of the Chiemsee region of Upper Bavaria. Like many German painters of his generation, Mattenheimer worked during a period when Romanticism was gradually giving way to a more naturalistic approach to landscape and genre painting. His works demonstrate an appreciation of atmosphere, place, and the character of the Bavarian countryside.
Although comparatively little is known about his career today, Mattenheimer’s paintings occasionally appear on the art market and are represented in specialist reference works on nineteenth-century German art. His relative obscurity has meant that much of his oeuvre remains under-researched, and works by the artist are consequently of particular interest to collectors of German and Central European painting.
Albin Mattenheimer died in 1875, leaving behind a small but intriguing body of work that forms part of the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Bavarian painting...
Category
1870s Naturalistic Art
