August Heinrich Niedmann, attr., An der Brettmühle
summer mountain landscape with hikers on the wooden square in ...

August Heinrich Niedmann, attr., An der Brettmühle
summer mountain landscape with hikers on the wooden square in front of a board-cutting mill, study-like, fleetly captured, glazed, partially slightly impasto painting, oil on canvas, c. 1890, unsigned, stamp of a Munich painting utensil shop on the reverse of the canvas, pre-printed label on the stretcher with attribution "Original von August Niedmann, München - geb. 13 [sic! correct would be: 3] May 1826, d. 18 January 1910 - confirmed by the ..." and handwritten indistinctly added "Granddaughter Tilde ... née Niedmann", on the reverse of the frame label with biographical information about the artist from Müller-Singer, minor craquelure, old retouching, paint chips, in need of restoration, in a very nice Impressionist gold stucco frame, folding dimensions approx. 49 x 61 cm. Artist info: German genre painter (1826 Brunswick to 1910 Ried near Benediktbeuren), son and initially pupil of his father, the painter of the Stobwasser lacquerware factory Martin David Niedmann (1790-1860?), studied at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick, here he was a pupil of the landscape painter and inspector of the Brunswick gallery Heinrich Brandes (1803-1868), 1850 he moved to Munich, studied at the academy of arts in Munich under Wilhelm von Kaulbach from 1851, then freelance in Munich, 1891 moved to Ried near Benediktbeuren [today Kochel am See], member of the Munich Artists' Association, participated in art exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Hanover and Vienna , source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Matrikel der Akademie München, Müller-Singer, Boetticher, Bruckmann "Münchner Maler des 19. Jh.", Bénezit, Seubert, Müller-Klunzinger, Dressler and Wikipedia.