Bavarian landscape with smth workshop was executed in 1869 by German painter Hans Sperlich (1847 in Jägerndorf /Schlesia, now Krnov in Czech Republic - 1931 in Würzburg). Sperlich was initially trained as a photographer. Since October 1883 he studied painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Carl Theodor von Piloty and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Joseph von Führich.

Around 1885 Sperlich moved to Würzburg, his wife´s hometown. He moved into the apartment on Haugerkirchplatz and set up a photographer´s studio on Mainkai. Initially, he worked as a landscape painter, and interior painter, later mainly as a portrait painter. Sperlich created ceiling paintings in the Marienkapelle zu Schlüsselfeld and in the Franconian Luitpold-Museum Würzburg, as well as murals in the Gasthof zum Schwan in Sommerach. He also founded a private painting school.In addition to his own works, he dealt with the copying of old paintings, such as Raphael´s "Madonna della Sedina" (1513) or portrait Ignaz Gropp (1740).He held the post of chairman of the Würzburg Kunstverein, and artistically arranged the Würzburg pageants.

Literature: Thieme/Becker, General artist lexicon, Leipzig, 1999; on-line wikipedia.

Inscription: signed and dated 1869 lower right.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 28 1/8" x h 32 1/4" (71,5 x 82 cm), framed w 33 1/2" x h 37 3/4" (85 x 96 cm ).

Condition: in very good condition , original canvas.