Lot 4
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Heinrich Bürkel

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Heinrich Bürkel
  • Wirtshaus auf der Alm mit Alpzug (tavern in the alps)
  • signed HBÜRKEL / 1842 lower right 
  • oil on canvas
  • 53.5 by 59cm., 21 by 23¼in.

Provenance

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, purchased 1st May 1843 (deascessioned in 1957)

Acquired by the present owner in the 1960s

Literature

Hans-Peter Bühler and Albrecht Krückl, Heinrich Bürkel.  Mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Munich, 1989, p. 98, pl. 58, illustrated in colour, p. 234, no. 110, catalogued & illustrated

Schwäbische Chronik, Zweite Abtheilung des Schwäbischen Merkurs, Verzeichniss der Kunstwerke, welche sich in der öffentlichen Kunstausstellung zu Stuttgart im Jahr 1843 befinden; Stuttgart, 1843, no 132, 15th Mai 1843 and no 135, 18th May 1843

Condition

Original canvas. There are only a very few flecks of retouching to the sky visible under ultraviolet light. Apart from stable scattered craquelure overall, the work is in good original condition and ready to hang. Held in a gilt, moulded plaster and wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Born in Pirmasens, Bürkel was a student at the Munich Academy and a pupil of Kobell. The son of an innkeeper, Bürkel was destined to enter the family business, but his desire to become a painter coupled with his talent, he broke with tradition and became a highly respected artist. He travelled throughout Italy and the Tirol, sketching and painting the countryside while recording the daily activities of the people who worked the land.

Bürkel was made an honorary member of the Vienna, Dresden and Munich Academies.