Oil on cardboard. Upper right monogrammed and dated. 53.3 x 86.9 cm.
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- Powerful landscape representation of expressive dynamics. - Max Peiffer Watenphul is a master of depicting emotion and atmosphere. - In the years 1943 to 1946, the city of Salzburg and the surrounding area became the artist's hometown and source of inspiataion. - His works are in renowned collections, among them the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main, the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
LITERATURE: Grace Watenphul Pasqualucci, Alessandra Pasqualucci, Max Peiffer Watenphul catalogue raisonneé, vol. 1, Gemälde - Aquarelle, Cologne 1989, p. 192, cat. no. G 330 (with illu.).