View of highest mount Matterhorn in Swiss Alps Was executed around 1940s-1950s by good listed Swiss landscape painter Emil Berger (1890 in Waldenburg, Canton Basel-Landschaft - 1979 in Sissach). 

Emil Berger, son of a watchmaker, grew up in Waldenburg and trained as a primary school teacher at the Wettingen teacher training college. As such, he taught from 1912 to 1955 at the primary school in Sissach. Berger undertook study trips to Munich, Dresden, Italy and Paris, teaching himself to be a painter. He copied Arnold Böcklin and Ferdinand Hodler and dealt with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Paul Cézanne. Several work stays took him to Bernina Hospice, Flims, Zermatt, the Bernese Oberland and St. Antönien. As a result, from 1928 he regularly exhibited in various group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel and at the Basellandschaftliche group exhibitions. In 1974 and 1978 two large solo exhibitions took place in Sissach.

Literature: on-line Wikipedia ; Hansjakob Schaub: Impressions in the village: the Sissacher painter Emil Berger. In: Baselbieter Heimatblätter, organ of the Society for Baselbieter Heimatforschung 74th year, 2009, No. 1, pp. 11-14.

inscriptions: signed lower right, on the back of the original frame is pencil inscription with artist's name and the title: Emil Berger "Matterhorn”.

Technique: oil on canvas, original period frame.

Measurements: unframed 28" x 31 7/8"(71 x 81 cm); framed 39 1/3" x 43 1/4"(100 x 110 cm).

Condition: good original condition.