Franz Richard Unterberger, 1838 Innsbruck – 1902... Lot n° 618

Venice, Sunset over the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute Oil on canvas, partly doubled. 58 x 111 cm. Signed lower right "F R Unterberger". Unframed. View of the richly populated shore near the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. To be seen in the foreground two elegant ladies and a mother with child feeding the numerous pigeons. Behind them several strolling figures, to the right a wall with a garden behind it, from which trees partly overhang the wall. On the left bank a woman in conversation with a fisherman, as well as anchored boats and gondolas. To the left, the view extends to the Punta della Dogana at the tip of Dorsoduro Island with the old customs house and its golden sphere. Behind it, shadowed, are the great basilica of Santa Maria della Salute with its mighty domes. Above it the high sky with setting sun, in partly shimmering white-yellow and reddish colors. Picturesque, extremely atmospheric representation in partly rapid brushwork with partly pastose application of paint. The artist was a Tyrolean landscape painter. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he was a student at the Düsseldorf Academy under Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) from 1860-1864 and later a private student of Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905). Towards the end of the 1860s he also traveled to southern Italy, where he created numerous paintings. The sunny coastal landscapes of the Adriatic, as well as Venice, soon became the focus of Unterberger's artistic work. (†) (1322013) (18) Franz Richard Unterberger, 1838 Innsbruck - 1902 Neuilly VENICE, SUNSET OVER BASILICA SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE Oil on canvas, partially relined. 58 x 111 cm. Signed "F R Unterberger" lower right. Veduta of the crowded shore near the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. Two elegant ladies and a mother with her child feeding the numerous pigeons are depicted in the foreground. Behind them are several strolling figures and a garden is hidden behind a wall to the right, over which some trees are protruding. (†)