Louis GURLITT (Altona, 1812 - Naundorf, 1897) View... Lot 47

Louis GURLITT (Altona, 1812 - Naundorf, 1897) View of Dubrovnik Canvas. Monogrammed lower right GL. 45,3 x 57 cm Louis Gurlitt first trained as a portrait painter in Hamburg before joining the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, from 1832 to 1834. There he discovered the paintings of Christoffer Eckersberg and, greatly impressed, devoted himself to landscape to landscape painting. With the painter Vilhelm Marstrand, he travelled through Sweden and Norway before settling in before settling in Munich, Copenhagen and Düsseldorf. In 1843, he undertook a trip to Italy, from Rome to Palermo, before returning to Germany, it was then that he was able to pass through Dubrovnik. The small formats in which he endeavors to render light, like the one we are presenting, are the are the most personal part of his work. Another view of the same site by Louis Gurlitt, with variants, smaller (29 x 48 cm), was sold at Bruun Rasmussen, May 30, 2017, lot #65