Albin Enders, "Kleinbauerngehöft"
Sunny winter day with a view of a snow-covered farm in the Vogtland, this ...

Albin Enders, "Kleinbauerngehöft"
Sunny winter day with a view of a snow-covered farm in the Vogtland, this motif appears repeatedly in the painter's work, which he captured both in oil and as an etching, it is possibly the artist's parental home in Meßbach, the artist's deep roots in the rural-rural milieu become clear from his self-biography in his 70th year, in which Enders writes ".... Genealogical research has shown that my ancestors on my mother's side were millers and on my father's side farmers and blacksmiths. ... As the seventh child of the farmer Wilhelm Enders, I was born on 11 July 1869 in the village of Meßbach near Plauen i. V.. I had the great fortune to grow up directly at the bosom of nature and to participate in all the joys and sorrows of rural life from childhood on. ...", atmospheric, slightly impasto impressionistic painting, oil on cardboard, monogrammed "AE" and dated "[19]14" twice in relief at lower left, various owner's annotations on the reverse, cracks due to shrinkage, somewhat in need of restoration, framed, folding dimensions approx. 49 x 69 cm. Artist info: German painter and etcher (1869 Meßbach to 1946 Oberweischlitz), early encouragement by his teacher Louis Riedel (1847-1919), studied 1884-89 at the Plauen art school, afterwards two years of military service, from 1891 employment at the Berlin printing and publishing house W. Hagelberg AG as a draughtsman of chromolithographic maps and luxury papers, in 1893 he turned to free painting, together with Albin Schlehahn he regularly undertook hiking trips to the Black Forest, Franconian Switzerland, the Alps and the Baltic Sea, promoted by the director of the Plauen art school Richard Hofmann and the Plauen collector and patron Robert Wirth, received private lessons in Munich, studied at the academy in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber and Robert Poetzelberger and 1899-1900 studied at the academy in Stuttgart under Carlos Grethe, from 1907 freelanced in Oberweischlitz near Plauen , source: Vollmer, Dressler, Saur Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon, Müller-Singer, Frank Weiß "Malerei im Vogtland" and Wikipedia.