Description
Oil, canvas; 71 x 101 cm
Signed p.d.: P. Weimann
Asking price 7000
Estimate 11000 - 14000
Paul WEIMANN
1867 Wrocław - 1945 Jelenia Góra
Silesian painter. He came from a respectable Wroclaw family. Having graduated from the local gymnasium, he took up art studies at the School of Art (Königliche Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeschule) where he came under the tutelage of Carl Ernst Morgenstern. Already during his studies he made study trips to Silesia and the Bavarian Alps to create landscape paintings. Weimann completed his artistic education at the Berlin Academy of Art. The artist got married and settled in Świerzawa, where his wife was from. Thus began a period in the painter's life of living on the sidelines, but also working intensively on landscape paintings depicting the Karkonosze foothills. People came for them from the area, but also from big cities - such as Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg. The period of "seclusion" was brought to an end by the children that the artist and his wife wanted to educate. At that time, they moved to Jelenia Gora and lived in a large house with a view of the Karkonosze Mountains from its windows. It was these mountains that became the primary subject of Paul Weimann's work. The artist perfected his ability to convey the atmosphere of the Karkonosze landscape by practicing different configurations, changing his point of observation and painting at different times of the day, perfectly capturing the changing hues of the snowy landscape. The merit of this painting lies not only in its decorative value, but also in its perfection in rendering on canvas the appearance of snow, whether it is lying on mountain slopes or coating the bare branches of trees.
