Panoramic view of Como Lake in North Italy with romantical village Bellaggio on the background. This work was executed in 1876 by Munich landscape painter Ferdinand Feldhütter ( 1842 Munich - 1898). Initially working as a decorative painter, folk singer and poet. Student of Julius Lange. Prizes: 1898 Gold-Med. in Barcelona (for game of Sachran). Feldhütter created Pre-Alpine and Alpine landscapes in late romance. View, above all as wide panoramas in the morning and evening mood with lowlands, lake-landscapes and the mountain world; detailed through side scenes and staffage in glazing technique. Bes. the light islands suggest depth of image in the compositions. In addition, location-specific topography: motif at the Achensee; Klösterl on Lake Walchen; Zell am See; Rest on the shores of Lake Chiemsee; Alpine valley with cows and distant weather horn; View from the hill on Tegernsee Abbey; Zillertal with farmers at harvest; Berchtesgaden in front of Watzmann massif.

WORKS: DONAUESCHINGEN, Collection of Prince Fürstenberg.

EXHIBITIONS : since 1888 regularly Munich, KV and Dresden, Akad. / 1998 Fürstenfeldbruck, Sparkasse: Maler in Bruck (K).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Thieme/Becker 11, 1915. Boetticher I.1, 1891 (Repr. 1948); ADB XLVIII, 1904; Munich Painter I, 1981

Inscription: signed and dated 1894, lower  left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed w 31 1/2" x h 23 2/3" (80 x 60 cm); framed w 46 5/8" x h 36 3/4" (118,5 x 93,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.