Description: Attributed Paul Von Franken (1818-1884), famous Gemany a genre and landscape painter, signed bottom right. Fertile scenery coastal town with castle, mosque, minaret, large travelers company by the fire, boats including sailing, debarkation etc. Probably one of the favorite variations of this artist. Antique oil painting oil on canvas, signed, framed.Size app.: 43 x 58 cm (roughly 17 x 23 in), enclosed into good gesso frame by E. G. Conzen in Dsseldorf (much younger to painting) which is 54.5 x 70.5 cm (roughly 21.5 x 27 in). Very Good ready to hang condition, was well restored, cleaned, relined and conserved few years ago. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition! In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 3 kg is going to measure 5 kg packed for shipment .Franken's trained at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts and spentthe period from 1842 to 1845 in Brussels and Antwerp and exhibited at the Dresden Academy in 1846. Later he worked as a teacher and met his Latvian wife Helene Korber. The couple lived for a year in her hometown of Jelgava (Mitau),and then moved to Tbilisi in 1853 travelling through St. Petersburg and Moscow on the way. Though Franken returned to work in Dusseldorf eight years later in 1861, he frequently returned to Tbilisi and the Caucasus to paint and draw,taking inspiration from Georgia back to his studio in Germany. Although Franken produced many paintings in 1884, the year of his death,many are believed to have been completed by Helene Korber at a later date.After his death, his wife took all of the Caucasian paintings completed by Franken back to Tbilisi to be distributed amongst the wider family, where many still remain today.
Price: 26000 USD
Location: Stockholm
End Time: 2024-12-20T20:56:26.000Z
Shipping Cost: 75 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Paul Von Franken
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: Paul Von Franken
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Period: Historicism (1850-1900)
Material: Canvas
Item Length: 27 in
Region of Origin: Asian
Framing: Framed
Subject: Asia, Boys, Cityscapes, Community Life, Family, Farming, Figures, Fishing, Forest, Houses, Ladies, Landscape, Seasons, Ships, Sunsets, Tree, Women
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1870
Item Height: 22 in
Style: Realism
Theme: Art, Cities & Towns, Continents & Countries, Cultures & Ethnicities, Domestic & Family Life, Famous Places, Natural History, Nature, People, Religious, Social History, Travel & Transportation
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Country/Region of Manufacture: Georgia
Culture: Caucasian
Handmade: Yes
