Oil on canvas
Austria, circa 1935
Ernst Huber (1895-1960) - Austrian landscape painter and graphic artist, member of the Vienna Secession
Signed lower left ‘E. Huber’
Inscribed on the stretcher by unknown hand ‘Ernst Huber’ and in red ‘No.12’
Dimensions: 65.5 x 73.5 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: Private collection Austria
Summery landscape in broad brush strokes by the famous Austrian artist; paintings by Ernst Huber are much sought after by collectors and fetch up to €28,000 on the international auction market

Viennese landscape painter Ernst Huber created this summery landscape around 1935, depicting the so-called ‘Mühlviertel’, a region located in upper Austria with mills in the field. Of his initially dark color palette is nothing left here. The rolling landscape, executed in broad brushstrokes, illuminates in vibrant colors. The artist created quite a special lighting effect through the breaking of the sky at the horizon as well as the slightly impasto applied grain field in the foreground, which appears in bright shining yellow.



The painting is signed ‘E. Huber’. On the upper margin of the subject with small, non-visible retouching, otherwise overall in very good condition. The painting is unframed, the dimensions of the stretcher are 65.5 x 73.5 cm.



Ernst Huber (1895-1960)

Ernst Huber was first trained as a typesetter in Vienna. He practiced his profession for a few years before working as a lithographer. At the same time, he attended a course by Otto Prutscher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. Huber learned to paint as an autodidact, he exhibited his first works in 1919. They attracted the attention of Josef Hoffmann, who introduced Huber to the sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi and admitted him to the artist group ‘Kunstschau’, whose members included artists such as Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka. In 1932 Huber became a member of the Vienna Secession, in 1935 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for painting. The artist’s initially sombre colour palette brightened gradually and finally exhibited bright and intense colours. Landscapes from Austria but also from distant lands, which he discovered during his travels, occupy a central position in Huber’s oeuvre. Works by Ernst Huber are held by the Galerie Belvedere, the Leopold Museum and the Graphische Sammlung Albertina in Vienna, as well as by the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum in Linz.

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