Paintings
"Hiker In The Mountains" Oil Painting on Wood Panel Gustave Adolph Wiegand Artist Signed "G. Wiegand"
GUSTAVE ADOLPH WIEGAND (1870-1957). American Impressionist Artist, Original Oil Painting on Wood Panel entitled, "Hiker in the Mountains" Signed, "G. Wiegand," Choice Extremely Fine.
This is a wonderful American Impressionist Oil Painting of a Western Mountain Pass Landscape, showing a sole individual hiking, painted on board and Signed by the artist, "G.(ustave) Wiegand" at the lower right corner. No date or place, yet late 19th to early 20th Century, measuring 9.5" x 7.5" and nicely presented in a gold leaf frame to overall size of 13.5" x 11.5" and ready for hanging on display. There is some very minor expert retouch to upper and left edges.
Gustave Wiegand was born in Bremen, Germany in 1870. Wiegand studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin and The Royal Academy of Dresden and also worked under Eugen Bract and William Merritt Chase in New York. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club, the Allied Artists of America, and the New York Society of painters. His works are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the National Arts Club in New York City, and the Newark Museum. During his career, he won numerous prizes and medals while exhibiting at the National Academy of Design from 1894-1900 (prize 1905), the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 (medal), the Allied Artists of America in 1937 (prize), and the World's Fair in St. Louis (medal).