Radius Carl Ebert
(1821-1885)
Forest landscape
oil painting on canvas
unsigned
dimensions 38 x 28 cm, dimensions with original Biedermeier frame 41,5 x 51,5 cm
clearing with a stream and two people staffage
Carl Ebert (1821 Stuttgart - 1885 Munich) German landscape painter. Visit to the Stuttgart art school, where Ebert won with religious images, numerous portraits and historical paintings, the means to venture into 1846 to Munich. Was under the influence of Fr Salzer, Richard Zimmerman and the house end to polling and Eberfing Malerkolonie all over the landscape. Ebert made in 1847 with a "Amper-area" a steadily growing reputation, and soon opened to him the opportunity to gain new views to the south and west. Although Italy had on the painter a powerful influence ("Grotto of Egeria," 1857; "Villa Cassandra" 1872; "Darsena Reale in Genoa) and several trips with E. Schleich and Morgenstern to Paris, Belgium and Holland, giving him a deep warm brown tone, won Ebert remained of the German landscape faithfully with the sunlight interwoven with oak and beech forests, clear waters that-trickles through raging with happy bathing children or wandering shepherds, but also by the roaring winds and spectacular thunderstorms (cf. Pecht, from the Munich Glass Palace, 1876 p. 99). Of ever new motives and moods of the "lot on the Würm" vehicles (1865), "From the Swabian Alp" (1866), "Dutch village scene (1867 and 1871)," From Lake Starnberg with harvest wagons and sunset. Then, the mighty, the whole "forest interior" revealing pictures, one (1877), the Munich Art Association for his Gallery acquired, "Chestnut in South Tyrol" (1879), "forge in the forest," etc. estate of the artist came in May 1885 in Munich for auction, paintings by him are now in museums, for example, in Stuttgart and Lübeck as well as in many private collections. (Source: Thieme-Becker)
