Preller, Friedrich (1804 Eisenach - 1878 Weimar)

Lot 3028 limit € 900

Oil/paper mounted on hardboard, stormy sea with boats off the coast, signed lower right, framed, approx. 31 x 40.5 cm, with frame approx. 37 x 47 cm, painter, graphic artist and draftsman, father of the painter Friedrich Preller the Younger , 1818-21 first artistic education at the Weimar drawing school under Heinrich Meyer (supported by Goethe), 1821-23 in Dresden, Grand Duke Karl August sent him to Antwerp, where he studied 1824-26 with van Bree, 1826 with a Weimar scholarship to Milan , 1828-31 in Rome, where JA Koch significantly influenced his heroic conception of landscape