Bidspirit auction | Anton Windmaier

Anton Windmaier - Anton Windmaier, Returning Villagers near Pang (Upper Bavaria). 1872.. Anton Windmaier 1840 Pfarrkirchen – 1896 Munich Hübner & Matz 1867 Königsberg – 1904 same location Adolph Heinrich Lier 1826 Herrnhut – 1882 Vahrn (Brixen) Richard Wurm München 1864 Munich – last mentioned same location 1925 Oil on canvas. Signed, locality indicated and dated ”Windmaier München 1872” faintly legible lower right. Verso with the stamp ”Malerleinwand – [F]arben-Farbrik von Richard Wurm – München.”. In an opulent Neo-Baroque stucco frame with meander sightline, strong profiling with laurel and encompassing egg-and-dart. Frame verso with remnants of a sticker from the Königsberg art dealership Hübner and Matz and ”72”. The (mirror-inverted) original of the present painting was one of the three versions of Adolph Heinrich Lier's ”Returning Villagers near Pang”, in a comparable format. The first version is undated, the second dated 1868, the third was created in the same year as the present painting. Cf. WVZ Mennacher 299f and 405. Canvas with three small holes (each Dimensions: 48.5 x 89.5 cm, frame 90 x 130 cm. Anton Windmaier 1840 Pfarrkirchen – 1896 Munich Self-taught. Considered part of the Dachau School. Particularly trained under Adolf Heinrich Lier.