Max Peiffer Watenphul
Landscape near Sorrento
Artist
Max Peiffer Watenphul
1896 Weferlingen - Rom 1976
Further information
Pasqualucci G 799 (Bd. II, Nachtrag).
Provenance
Private collection, Southern Germany, acquired directly from the artist in the 1950s;
Grisebach, Berlin 25 November 2000, Lot 380;
Private collection, Berlin.
Grisebach, Berlin 25 November 2000, Lot 380;
Private collection, Berlin.
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Description
• A dreamlike, idealised Italian landscape with a tranquil and elegiac atmosphere
• Peiffer Watenphul avoids any compositional contrasts and dispenses with human figures as background elements
• The coarse, rough-textured canvas is characteristic of his paintings
• Peiffer Watenphul avoids any compositional contrasts and dispenses with human figures as background elements
• The coarse, rough-textured canvas is characteristic of his paintings