Lot 33: Self Portrait with Palette

Kalckreuth, Leopold von
Düsseldorf 1855 - Eddelsen/Hittfeld 1928
Self Portrait with Palette
Oil/wood, 60 x 37 cm, up. le. sign. Kalckreuth d.J. - Important German naturalist painter, son of the head of the Weimar academy, Count Stanislaus v. K. K. studied at the Weimar a. Munich academies, became professor at the Karlsruhe academy a. head of the Stuttgart academy. Later he retired to Eddelsen manor near Hamburg. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Berlin, Bremen, München, Stuttgart, Weimar. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. others.