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Lot 223:
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Keywords: Orientalist, River Landscape, Sunset Scene, Boats, Sailboats, Figures, Palm Trees, Waterscape, Coastal Scene, Early 20th Century, Framed Painting, Impressionistic Landscape
Summary:
Alex Kircher signed Orientalist painting depicting figures gathered along a palm-lined riverbank with moored boats and sailboats beyond. Signed and dated lower left, 1916. Presented in a gilt frame.
Alexander Kircher was an Austrian-German marine and landscape painter, and an illustrator. Many of his paintings are exhibited in museums in Germany, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia or are privately owned in those countries. But there are also some of his paintings in the United States of America, Great Britain, Scandinavia and Greece.
Influential members of the nobility and some industrialists – especially from the circles of Maritime Navigation – promoted the artist. First of them was Emperor Franz Joseph I and Emperor Wilhelm II. On behalf of these two monarchs, Kircher painted numerous images of the imperial and German Navy. His paintings were also found on the large passenger ships of the time, as well as in the offices of well known shipping companies and shipyards and of course also in private ownership.
During World War II, several images got lost or disappeared. An example of the many lost images is the large oil painting of the steamship Columbus ("The Columbus in the Kaiser lock"). This painting was given by the North German Lloyd as a gift to the city of Bremerhaven on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 1927. The painting disappeared at the end of World War II (1945). –
Measurement: Art: 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. (70.5 x 52.7 cm.), Frame: 32 1/2 x 26 in. (82.6 x 66 cm.) approx
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