Franz Richard Unterberger "Pair of Alpine landscapes"
Description
Oil on canvas, signed illegibly "F. R. U....", secondary signatures.
Framed (each): 90x122 cm (50x82 cm)
Provenance: The Dorotheum, 2003
Attribution: Franz Richard Unterberger (Innsbruck 1838 - 1902 Neuilly-sur-Seine) is best known for his works of colorful, romantic, Italian views. He studied at the Academy of Munich, with Albert Zimmerman, at Weimar, and under Andreas Achenbach at Dusseldorf. He lived in Brussels in 1860 where he was influenced by the Belgian school and later visited southern France and Italy, most notably Naples, where some of his best known works are known to have been painted. He traveled to Norway, England, Denmark and exhibited in Vienna, other Continental cities and various Continental museums such as Louviers, Gallerie Roussel (Amalfi, Gulf of Salerno), Troyes (The Isle of Capri), and Melbourne, Australia, (Gulf of Salermo).