ARTIST: Felix Burgers (Germany, 1870 - 1934)
NAME: Winter Alpine Landscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 27 x 37 inches / 68 x 93 cm
FRAME SIZE: 33 x 44 inches / 83 x 111 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Felix Burgers was a German landscape painter.Felix Burgers studied business and began working in the offices of his father's tobacco factory in Amsterdam, but at just 30 years of age he became seriously ill and his doctor advised him to change his profession. His qualities and his interest led him to painting. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , with Otto Reininger, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Ludwig Schmid-Reutte.In Ludwig Schmid-Reutte's studio he met his future wife, the Hanoverian painter Gertrud Laurenz. The couple ended up together in Dachau, where they arrived in 1904. Their house on Herzog-Albrecht Street became a meeting point for artists.Felix Burgers was a passionate lover of nature and in the garden of his house he planted curious species that served as a model in his paintings. Today there is a home for people with disabilities on the property.At Dachau Felix Burgers deepened his studies at Dachau with Adolf Holzel , who was the exponent of the Dachau School. He and his wife were co-founders of the Dachau Artists Group. Felix also belonged to the Allotria Art Society and was a member of the Munich Secession, which on the occasion of his 60th birthday organized an exhibition of his works in the Crystal Palace in Munich.The artist remained great seasons in Murnau, in the Staltach in the Sea of the East, in the Surtirol and Switzerland, from where many of its lakes and mountain ranges.During the exhibition of his work in the Crystal Palace in Munich a fire ruined a large part of the works in his collection.A part of his work is in the Dachau Painting Gallery.On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, a major exhibition was held at Dachau Castle, curated by his son, Hannes Burgers.A street in Dachau has his name on it.