Ludwig Adrian Richter

DescEN Richter, Ludwig Adrian Dresden 1803 - 1884 King Lear. Design for an etching (HB 3170). Watercolour and black pencil on paper. Mounted: Upper edge partially mounted with self-adhesive strips. Paper format 11.5 x 7.5cm. The corresponding etching was carried out by Adrian Schleich.

Ludwig Richter1803-1884- Couple preparing a picnic in a summerlandscape; pen and brown ink and watercolour wash, 12x9.5cm, mounted: C H Sherman, fl.1905- Women and putti; lithograph in green, onolive paper, signed and dated within the plate, signed in pencil, with margins, lackingcorner bottom left, with handling marks, creasingand losses, 46x85cm, (af) (unframed) (2) Plus Vat on hammer price £30-40 Antiques Auction 5 February 2011

Ludwig Richter 1803-1884- Couple preparing a picnic in a summer landscape; pen and brown ink and watercolour wash, 12x9.5cm, mounted: C H Sherman, fl.1905- Women and putti; lithograph in green, on olive paper, signed and dated within the plate, signed in pencil, with margins, lacking corner bottom left, with handling marks, creasing and losses, 46x85cm, (a/f) (unframed) (2)

Adrian Ludwig Richter (German, 1803-1884) Am Brunnen bei Grottaferrara signed and dated 'L. Richter/1832' (lower right) oil on canvas 44½ x 39¼ (113 x 99.5 cm.) Provenance Herr Oberlehrer Fritsche, Dessau (acquired 1832 from theKunstverein draw). Private collection, Berlin. Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, 26 May 1989, lot 271. with Bruno Meissner, Zurich. Private collection, Switzerland and by inheritance to the presentowner. Literature J.H. Hoff, Adrian Ludwig Richter, Maler und Radierer, Freiburg,1927, p. 67 (mentioned under a description of the engravedversion). K.J. Friedrich, Die Gemälde Ludwig Richters, Berlin, 1937, no.39. Sammlerlust - Europäische Kunst aus fünf, Jahrhunderten, exhibitioncatalogue, Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst undKunstgeschichte, 18 May-24 August 2003, p. 220,illustrated. Exhibited Dresden, Sächsische Kunstverein, 1832. Engraved By the artist, 1832. Lot Notes This canvas was described by Ludwig Richter as 'one of the mostaccomplished things that I have ever made.' Exhibited at theKunstverein in Dresden, the composition was so popular that theartist reproduced it in two smaller versions and an engraving.Writing to Oberlehrer Fritsche, who had won this prime version inthe Kunstverein draw, Richter described the work in the followingterms: 'In my painting, the view of the castle is taken from thebeautiful woodland path, which leads in half an hour to thecharming town of Frascati. Groups of ancient oaks and plane trees,the view towards the distant blue sea, and the empty plains aroundRome all make this path unique.' The present painting is entirely characteristic of ItalianateGerman Romantic painting, which found expression in the religiouslandscapes of Nazarene artists such as Josef Anton Koch, and in themore naturalist views of the Italian Campagna rendered by artistssuch as Franz Ludwig Catel, Heinrich Reinhold and Carl Rottman.Richter's works from the mid-1820s to the mid-1830s combine boththese influences. Here the tree is clearly derived from carefullyobserved drawing studies made by the artist en plein air in 1824,but the finished composition -- executed in the artist's studio inMeissen -- is rendered in a classicizing, Claudian idiom, with themotifs of figures and well echoing quite closely a rendition byKoch of the same subject, painted around the same time (fig.1). Richter had gained his first exposure to the Romantic spiritthrough the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich at the DresdenAcademy, which impressed upon him a sense of the monumental innature. However, his own keenly felt sense of naturalism was morestrongly developed by his own experiences as a travelling companionto Count Narishkin, whose journey through France and Germany herecorded in numerous drawings, and by the exhibition at the Academyin 1822 of several Italian landscapes by Catel and Johann Martinvon Rohden, which struck Richter with their spontaneity andfreshness. Richter set off for Rome in the summer of 1823. Although as alandscape artist he was not instinctively drawn to the ratherformal theories of the Nazarenes, in Koch he found a less dogmaticteacher than the movement's original founders, who subordinated thefigural element of Nazarene painting into large, classicallandscapes. Richter studied under Koch until May 1825, when he setoff on a journey to Southern Italy, before returning in 1826 toDresden. The works produced by Richter for several years after his return toGermany were largely classical landscapes, notable for theirlinearity and strong sense of light, but always softened by aRomantic sensibility honed by extensive studies from nature, andwhich combine to extraordinarily powerful effect in the presentpainting.

RICHTER, LUDWIG (1803-1884). Family idyll.Several generations of a family on an excursion. Pencil andwatercolour on paper, heightened white, signed and dated "1843".Provenance: Old private collection in Frankfurt. Familienidyll. Mehrere Generationen einerFamilie beim Ausflug. Aquarell über Bleistift auf Papier, weißgehöht, unten links signiert und datiert "1843". 14 x 20,5 cm,R.(91973008) Provenienz: Aus einer alten FrankfurterPrivatsammlung.