ARTIST: Rudolf Epp (Germany, 1834 - 1910)
TITLE: The Love Letter
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board.
CONDITION: Some paint losses along edges. Minor stable craquelure. Few small inpaitings along edges.
ART SIZE: 35 x 30 inches / 88 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
A German Munich School realist painter, Rudolf Epp was born in 1834 in Eberbach am Neckar, the son of a decorative painter. From his youth he did much drawing on his own initiative and took his first lessons from landscape painter Charles Ludwig Seeger. He then studied at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School Karlsruhe as a student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and attended the Art Academy in Dusseldorf.Due to his obvious talent, he was recognized by the then rulers and later Grand Duke Friedrich I von Baden on leave from military service. A Grand-Ducal Order, as well as additional funding allowed Epp, a study trip to the Black Forest. The year 1859 saw him spend long periods of time painting and drawing in the vicinity of Freiburg im Breisgau and Landstuhl .Rudolf Epp married in 1862 and moved to Munich in 1863. He was then influenced by the work of Karl von Piloty, director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He attained at this time a great fame which would not leave him until the end of his days, the public appreciating his genre paintings and his landscapes.