Oil on canvas
Austria, around 1930
Anton Filkuka (1888-1957) – Viennese landscape, portrait and genre painter
Signed in red ‘Filkuka’ lower right
Dimensions: 71 x 100 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private collection, Austria
Impressive mountain scenery with hut in the valley, thickly painted in bold colors. Large-format paintings by Anton Filkulka achieve up to €15,000 on the international auction market

In this painting Anton Filkuka has represented an impressive mountain landscape in his typical manner. The foreground shows two huts in a clearing, surrounded by a thick pine forest. In the back the barren mountains, whose overwhelming size the artist has rendered in various nuances, rise before a blue sky. The occasional snow covers are painted with free, energetic brush strokes. The Viennese painter has created many poetic-realist landscape scenes in the Ausseerland, in which he captured the romantic atmosphere of the mountains and valleys in delicate tones.



The painting is in very good overall condition. It is unframed. The work is signed lower right in red ‘Filkuka’. On the left edge there is a small retouching. The stretcher frame measures 71 x 100 cm.



Anton Filkuka (1888-1957)

Anton Filkuka studied at the Vienna academy under Sigmund l’Allemand as well as at the colleges of Heinrich von Angeli and Kasimir Pochwalksi. He exhibited his work in the Vienna Künstlerhaus as well as the Albrecht-Dürer-Bund and was awarded the gold Dürer medal and the special merit award of the city of Vienna. His oeuvre is representative of traditional Austrian painting. After the Second World War he lived and worked mostly in Altausee and created genre scenes of the peasant milieu in addition to his numerous landscapes. Filkuka’s paintings are to be found in public collections in Düsseldorf, Geneva, Stockholm and New York.

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