Winter forest w birches German landscape Signed pro painter Oil painting ^Sale

Indistinct signature lower right “A.W*mm*” may stand for Adalbert Wimmenauer, (February 2, 1869 - November 17, 1914), a German landscape, portrait and figure painter from the Düsseldorf School. Painting was painted by an undeniably professional painter. Very well detailed mixed forest easily painted in confident brush strokes depicted in precise color and composition.
Size app.: 28,5 x 21,5 cm (roughly 11 x 8,5 in) and frame ca 43,5 by 37 cm (roughly 17 x 14,5 in). Very Good condition, damage in wear to frame only, old varnish. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2 kg is going to measure some 3 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Adalbert Wimmenauer was a son of the high school teacher Theodor Wimmenauer, born on January 20, 1842 in Neckarsteinach. The last educational place of his father was the high school Adolfinum Moers, which Adalbert attended from 1882 to 1887. After graduating from high school, he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1889/1890. Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola and Adolf Schill were his teachers there. He then became a student of Max Liebermann in Berlin and Hans Thoma in Karlsruhe. As a freelance artist he settled in Munich, but kept returning to the Lower Rhine, whose landscape he valued as an open-air painter. He also went on study trips to the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. In 1914 Wimmenauer volunteered for service in the First World War. With the Royal Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment. A grenade hit him fatally on November 17, 1914. Wimmenauer's impressionistic landscape painting is often characterized by reserved colors. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Grafschafter Museum in Moers organized an exhibition of his works.