Very fine Biedermeier landscape with a village in South Tyrol (due to the antique inscription on the back of the stretcher) was executed in 1851 by good listed German landscape painter August Behrendsen (1819 Magdeburg - 1886 Hildesheim). Pipil of F.W. Schirmer at the Berlin Academy, which influence he had in bis landscapes. From Berlin moved he to Königsberg; Teacher from 1855, and Professor at the local Academy . Div. prizes : including 1862 large gold-Med. of the the Berlin Academy., 1869, ibid. member -B. painted atmospheric landscapes in a meticulous style and strong colours. He found his subjects in East Prussia and the Baltic Sea, later in Upper Italy, the Italian Alps in Tyrol and Switzerland; also the views of the Mediterranean coast (among others, Genoa and Nice). Especially in the way of the comp. weighs an idealized concept in his works.

WORKS BERLIN, State. MUS. PrK, NAT.-GAL.: Hand Drwg. MUNICH, Karlsruhe GAL. in the Lenbachhaus: morning on the Godausee and Dachstein, oil/LW., 1844; Starnberg, oil/cardboard, 1845.

EXHIBITIONS E: 1887 Berlin, NAT.-GAL.: RETR.

Literature: ThB3, 1909 Salas I, 1981 - Börsch-Supan I, 1971; Th. Fontane, attachments to the image. Art, in: Sämtl. Works, XXIII. 1, M. 1970. Börsch-Supan, painting, 1988.

Inscription: signed with monogram and dated (18)51 lower left, on the back of stretcher titled and signed again in German: " Gegend im Süd Tirol. Morgenlandschaft. August Behrendsen fec.(fecit) , Königsberg, 1851".

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 16 1/2" x h 13 1/3" (42 x 34 cm), framed w 23 1/2" x h 20 1/4" (59,5 x 51,5 cm).

Condition: in good original condition, original canvas.