Oil on canvas, relined
Presumably Bavaria, circa 1910
Carl Friedrich Felber (1880-1932) – Swiss-German painter and etcher
Signed lower left ‘C. Felber’
With old gallery labels on the verso
Dimensions: 90.5 x 105.5 cm
Good condition
View of a summer forest, which the artist captured a bustling, impasto stroke of; Felber’s landscapes fetch up to €6,000 on the auction market

The painting by Carl Friedrich Felber depicts a poplar forest on a sunny summer’s day. In the center the tall trees swaying in the breeze open the view onto a farmstead in the background. Inspired by the impressionists, whom he became acquainted with during a stay in Paris, Felber adopted an expressive and fresh manner of painting. Thus it is the dynamic and highly impasto paint application as well as the skillful lighting in particular, which animate the image. With broad strokes and dabs of paint Felber created a sea of colors that comes together at a distance to from a striking landscape.



The painting is signed lower left ‘C. Felber’. It is in good condition. The canvas is relined. The frame shows light wear. The framed work measures 113 x 128 cm, the stretcher frame measures 90.5 x 105.5 cm.



Carl Friedrich Felber (1880-1932)

Carl Friedrich Felber initially received private drawing and painting lessons and then attended the art school of Hermann Gattinger. Later he moved to Paris and became acquainted with the technique of etching at the Académie Julian. From 1900 Felber was a pupil at the painting school of Simon Hollósy in Munich. A year later he moved to Dachau where he joined Adolf Hölzl and Ludwig Dill and became a co-founder of the Dachau artists’ colony. For a while he led his own painting school. Felber‘s oeuvre mainly includes oil paintings of Bavarian and Swiss landscapes as well as some large format aquatints. (tfa)

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