Walther KLEMM Antique Pastoral Print “The Cattle Up, Bavaria” SIGNED Framed COA$379.00
Walther KLEMM Antique Pastoral Print “The Cattle Up, Bavaria” SIGNED Framed COA
$379.00
Artist: Walther Klemm (German, 1883 – 1957)
Title: A Cattle fair in upper Bavaria
Medium: Antique print on wove paper after the original woodcut.
Year: 1911
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower right.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 15 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The annual cattle drive, or Almabtrieb, is a Bavarian tradition that takes place in the fall when cows return from the summer pastures to their winter stalls.The Almabtrieb takes place at the end of September.Cows are decorated with colorful headdresses and ribbons, and are returned to the valley from the mountain pastures. The Almabtrieb is especially spectacular on Lake Königssee near Berchtesgaden, where the cows are transported across the lake on large barges.
Walther Klemm (June 18, 1883 – August 11, 1957) was a German painter, printmaker, and illustrator. He was born in Karlsbad and studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. In 1904 he exhibited with the Vienna Secession and moved to Prague and established a studio with Carl Thiemann. Klemm and Thiemann moved to the Dachau art colony in 1908 and both joined the Berlin Secession and Deutscher Künstlerbund around 1910. Klemm was appointed professor of graphics at the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School in 1913 and after the Second World War aided in the reconstruction of the Weimar Art School. In 1952 he was named an honorary senator of the Weimar School of Architecture and Civil and Structural Engineering (now absorbed by the Bauhaus University, Weimar). He died in 1957 in Weimar. In 1928 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his “Schlittschuhlaufen” (“Skating”). In 1953 he received the Nordgau-Kulturpreis for visual art.
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