Fritz Beckert Lot n° 42

Fritz Beckert, Dresden - Palace in the Great Garden in early spring. 1941. Fritz Beckert1877 Leipzig - 1962 Dresden Oil on hardboard. Signed u.li. "Fritz Beckert" and dated. Numbered "IV 49.2" on verso upper left. In a historicizing gold-coloured stucco frame. The Palais im Großen Garten is the earliest representative baroque building in Saxony. It was built from 1678 to 1693 and is one of the most important buildings in Dresden in terms of art and cultural history. This painting shows the building from the northwest, coming from the Hauptallee. Cf. motivically the drawings "Palais im Großen Garten" as well as "Die Zeit robt die Schönheit" and "Corradinivase" (the latter two drawings with the palace in the background). Illustrated in: Erhard Frommhold, "Unvergängliches Dresden. From the life's work of the city painter Fritz Beckert". Dresden 1955, plate 2, plate 3 a. p. 29. Painting layer with tiny retouchings o.m. in the area of the sky as well as lower right in the area of the vegetation (c. 2.5 x 1.3 cm). Partial rubbing in the marginal areas, at the upper right margin a tiny missing part. U. Mi. two inconspicuous vertical scratch or pressure marks (ca. 5,5 cm). Measures: 45 x 60 cm, cm. 64 x 79. Fritz Beckert 1877 Leipzig - 1962 Dresden German architectural painter and university teacher at the Technical University Dresden. 1894-96 Attended the art academies in Leipzig and 1896-99 Dresden as a pupil of Friedrich Preller the Younger and Gotthardt Kuehl. Study trips to Thuringia, Franconia, Austria and Italy. 1902 founds the artists' group "Die Elbier", later the Dresden Secession. From 1908 private lecturer for architectural painting at the Technical University Dresden, from 1921 associate professor and 1925-45 full professor. 1945 Loss of the studio and most of his work.