Klinger, Mario — Pendants: blue and red roses

Virgin Mary with Christ and the Infant Saint John framed by a flower wreath.

Around 1640.

Cornelis Schut (Antwerp about 1597-1655) was Master of the Antwerp Lukasgilde since 1618 and created numerous altarpieces for churches all over Belgium.

The influence of Peter Paul Rubens, with whom he collaborated for a while, is apparent in many of his works.

Particularly inventive and of the same high quality as the pictorial presentation is the garland of flowers with cherries and other fruits created by Daniel Seghers (Antwerp 1590-1661), who had been trained in flower painting by Jan Brueghel.

Oil on wood.

Height 84 cm, width 69 cm.

High-quality Still Life with Fruits, c. 1810

Signed lower left.

Mayrhofer (Oberneukirchen 1764 - 1832 Munich) was renowned as extremely precise flower painter.

Besides the artistic he also showed scientific interest in plants and published numerous botanical lithographs and an "Instruction manual to the flower drawing".

Also in the case of this still life he attached great importance to the exact reproduction of the various blossoms and fruits.

Oil on canvas, in original frame.

Height 71 cm, width 61 cm.

(Amsterdam 1792 - 1844 The Hague)

Below right monogrammed "AB".

The overripe figs, peaches, grapes and plums, which have already been visited by insects remind us of the transitoriness of everything earthly - entirely in the tradition of the golden ages. This also corresponds to the high picturesque Quality and balanced composition of the overflowing fruit basket of the Dutch Master.

Oil on canvas.

Height 54 cm, width 65 cm.

Attributed to Karel Borchaert Voet

Oil on canvas, doubled. Against a neutral background

arranged in bright colors

Fruit still life with pineapple, aloe, coral tree plant,

Grapes and nasturtium, and

two white cabbages.

Voet (Zwolle 1670-1744/45 Dordrecht) was an insect

and flower painter and dedicated

prefers exotic, exotic fruits

and plants, he paid particular attention to the

the correct reproduction of all details. 1735 published

he was commissioned by the Earl of Portland

the "Codex Bentingiana", a magnificent catalog

of all flowers and insects in its homonymous

Garden.

Height 80 cm, Beite 66 cm.

Thieme/Becker, General encyclopedia of the visual arts

Artist, vol. 34, p. 472.

Richard Friedrich Reusing, 1913

In one with different cloth draperies

filled interior portrayed

Reusing a lady in elegant, shoulderless

Evening gown. The soft falling one,

iridescent fabrics correspond to the virtuosic

and loosely placed, pasty brush strokes.

Reusing (Mühlheim on the Rhine 1874-1956 Haan)

studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

and received already as a master pupil the first

orders for portraits, for which he will soon also be

was appreciated and in demand nationwide. In

his characterful, impartial style of painting

he portrayed numerous famous contemporaries

from art and society, among others

Richard Strauss, Joachim Ringelnatz, Albert

Einstein, Gustav Krupp or August Thyssen.

Height 194 cm, width 126 cm.

Thieme/Becker, General encyclopedia of the visual arts

Artist, vol. 28, p. 196.

Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann

Oil on canvas. Bellermann (Erfurt 1814-1889

Berlin) originally began an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter.

and moved to Berlin in 1833.

Academy. From there, he was led to various

Travels to Scandinavia, South America, etc.

and Italy. Especially that of King

Friedrich Wilhelm IV. sponsored study trip

to Venezuela and the exchange with Alexander

von Humboldt shaped his artistic work.

His landscapes are not only under construction

well composed, but often dedicate themselves to the

also seemingly insignificant details and botanical

Characteristics of the depicted nature.

Height 58.5 cm, width 62.5 cm.

Thieme/Becker, General encyclopedia of the visual arts

Artist, vol. 3, pp. 243-244.

"Salvator Mundi and the Twelve Apostles"

Late Gothic panel painting,

originally predella of a winged altarpiece

Nuremberg, around 1490

unknown Nuremberg master, circle of Michel Wolgemut

(Master in Nuremberg from 1434 - 1519)

Height: 90 cm, width: 130 cm

Workshop of Antoine Pesne, c. 1725/30

The younger sister of Frederick the Great and Margravine Wilhelmine of Bayreuth was married in 1730 in Berlin to Karl Wilhelm Frederick, the "wild margrave" of Brandenburg-Ansbach. She was the mother of the last Franconian Hohenzollern Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach. Oil on canvas.

Height 156 cm, width 119 cm (without frame).

Thieme/Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 26, p. 467ff.

Christian Richter, 1643

This portrait of a child by the hand of the princely Saxon court painter Richter (Altenburg around 1612-1667 Weimar) shows the first Duke of Jena-Saxony as a boy at the age of five in a magnificent red suit with gold borders and lace trimming. The inscription in the upper left corner reads "Bernardus Dux Saxoniae / Iuli Cliui et Mont / Born in Weimar / Ao. 1638 / Contrafeit Ao. 1643 / C. Judge". Oil on canvas.

Height 130 cm, width 84 cm (without frame).

Thieme/Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 28, p. 285-286.

Paul de Vos
(Hulst 1591/92 or 1595 in Hulst – 1678 Antwerp)

"Boy in the Pantry"

Flemish, Antwerp, c. 1640

Oil on canvas, rentoilized
Height: 150 cm, width: 200 cm

Literature: Hella Robels: Frans Snyders. Stilleben und Tiermaler 1597-1657. Munich 1989, p. 430, no. A 29 II.

Provenance:
Gallery Sigmund Welz, Salzburg 1955
Gallery Wolfdietrich Hassfurther, Vienna 1960