id: 150338 accession number: 1981.11 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.11 updated: 2025-02-09 04:05:05.776000 Hunter and Lord at the River Isar with View of Munich, 1823. Wilhelm von Kobell (German, 1766–1853). Oil on wood panel; framed: 38 x 33.5 x 6 cm (14 15/16 x 13 3/16 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 25 x 20.6 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1981.11 title: Hunter and Lord at the River Isar with View of Munich title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1823 creation date earliest: 1823 creation date latest: 1823 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 19th century technique: oil on wood panel department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wilhelm von Kobell (German, 1766–1853) - artist First taught by his father, Ferdinand (1740-1799), and his uncle Franz (1749-1822), both professional painters, Wilhelm attended the drawing academy in Mannheim, where he mainly learned the technical aspects of the métier. Artistically his father's teaching had greater impact, for he encouraged his son to copy Dutch seventeenth-century landscapes. The young Kobell's drawings, prints, and paintings indeed showed much indebtedness to artists such as Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683) and Philips Wouwermans (1619-1668). From 1789 Kobell collaborated on landscapes with his father, such as the Aschaffenburg cycle (Neue Pinakothek, Munich, and Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg). He also traveled to Munich, where in 1790 the Elector Palatine Karl Theodor bought two of his landscapes and provided him with stipends to travel to England and Italy. Kobell used the money to finance his move to Munich in 1793, however, where he became court painter for Karl Theodor. The change of scenery influenced his art tremendously, and it was in Munich that Kobell developed full artistic independence, concentrating on the effects of natural light and the use of bright colors. In 1797 he married Anna Maria Theresa von Krempelhuber. Besides landscapes and portraits of family members, he also painted military scenes. In 1806 Kobell received a commission from Maximilian I Joseph, king of Bavaria, to paint a cycle of seven paintings commemorating the Napoleonic Wars. Two years later Crown Prince Ludwig I commissioned another cycle of twelve works, on which Kobell worked for seven years. During this period he traveled to Vienna (1809) and Paris (1809-10); from 1814 to 1826 he taught landscape painting at the Munich Academy, where he failed to have much impact. During the last part of his career, Kobell typically painted encounters between citizens and farmers in the countryside near Munich. --- measurements: Framed: 38 x 33.5 x 6 cm (14 15/16 x 13 3/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 25 x 20.6 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right corner: WKobell 1823 [WK in monogram] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1981 opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity opening date: 2006-09-13T00:00:00 Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (organizer) (September 13, 2006-January 1, 2007); Albertina, Wien, Austria (January 25-April 29, 2007); Deutsches Historisches Museum (May 18-September 11, 2007). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Milwaukee Art Museum (9/13/2006-1/1/2007): "Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity"', 'opening_date': '2006-09-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Major Corbett Winder, Vaynor Park, Berriew, Montgomeryshire. date: footnotes: citations: London sale, Christie's, 17 June 1905 (lot 25), 1823, Sportsmen on Horseback, and Other Figures-A Pair, panel 9½ x 7½ in., to Kenderick, with pendant. date: footnotes: citations: New York sale, Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 14 June 1973 (lot 353), Two Riders in a Landscape, and The Afternoon Ride: A Pair of Paintings, with pendant, to Ira Spanierman, New York, and German dealer. date: footnotes: citations: Rudolf Heinemann, Lugano. date: footnotes: citations: Artemis, Fine Arts Ltd., London, 1980. Purchased by the cma through Eugene V. Thaw, New York, 1981. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Széchenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17. page number: Mentioned: p. 16 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161437 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 380-382, Vol. II, no. 132 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.11/1981.11_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.11/1981.11_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.11/1981.11_full.tif