Lot 374: August Löffler München 1822 - München 1866

August Löffler
München 1822 - München 1866
Quarantine Port of Beirut
Watercolour, 20,5 x 29 cm, lo. le. sign. A. Löffler, on the reverse inscribed 'Quarantaine Hafen von Beirut auf dem Libanon', matted a. framed under glass. - German landscape painter. L. was pupil of H. Adam a. J. Lange, a. greatly influenced by C. Rottmann. He initially worked in the environs of Munich. In the 1840s a. 1850s he travelled Italy, Istria, North Africa a. the Middle East. He settled in Dresden, later in Berlin where he got many commissions - partly by the court - for paintings with Southern landscapes. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Munich (Neue Pinakothek), Stuttgart a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.