High qualitative Biedermeier landscape by important represantative of  Austrian Biedermeier , landscape pinter Ignaz Raffalt (1800 Weißkirchen as Ignatius Gröbner 1857, near Hainbach by Vienna)

He trained as a merchant and initially pursued painting only as a sideline. From 1820 to 1825, he studied at the Academy of St. Anna in Vienna, where J. P. Krafft (see entry), Mößmer (see entry), and A. Petter (see entry) were his teachers. During his subsequent years as a journeyman, he worked in St. Veit, Klagenfurt, and Styria. After his father's death in 1833, he took over the family inn in Murau, but also pursued a productive career as a portrait and genre painter. Encouraged by Count Wickenburg, he held an exhibition in 1837. in Graz, whose success prompted him to move there in 1838. From 1840 onward, he lived in Vienna and increasingly devoted himself to landscape painting. R., a significant representative of Austrian Biedermeier painting, left behind a substantial body of work. Contemporary lithographers frequently used his works as models, thus contributing to their wider dissemination. He exhibited regularly at the monthly exhibitions of the Austrian Art Association and the annual exhibitions of the Vienna Academy. Exhibitions: Graz 1965, Murau and Judenburg 1972.

Literature: "General Artist´s Lexicon " by Thieme/Becker, Leipzig; Porf.H.Fuchs "Lexikon von österreichischen maler des 19. Jahrhunderts".

Inscription: signed on a log lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Magnificent original  period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed 27 1/8" x 16 3/4"  (78,5 x 57,5 cm); framed 32 5/8" x 22 3/8" (104,5 x83,5 cm)

Condition: in good condition.