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Innsbruck. Cloth. Paper pastedown on buckram. . Fine. Beautiful ethereal painting of Tyrolean boy rendered on material woven from actual cobweb. Exquisite, and scarce, with supposedly fewer than 100 paintings of this type (cobweb) paintings ever done. N.d., circa 1870s. The artwork is about 9 by 5 cm, in a frame, 13 by 10 cm and the outer folder is 15 by 12 cm. Also contained in the small folio is a sample of cobweb material. The painter, Franz Unterberger (1838-1902), was a well-known Austrian painter known for his traditional Tyrolean genre artwork. He retained local artisans to render his image on to the cobweb material.
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PAINTING ON COBWEB * GEMALDE AUF SPINNENGEWEBE * PEINTURE SUR TOILE
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PAINTING ON COBWEB * GEMALDE AUF SPINNENGEWEBE * PEINTURE SUR TOILE D'ARAIGNEE. This is a most uusual piece of art, being an original watercolor executes upon an actual spder's web. The image is of a little girl and boy in peasant garb. It is matted and housed in a printed pictorial folder that measures 4 1/2 x 6" with the title in English, German and French. The image is broken in several places, but still in very good condition considering its age and fragile nature.
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Gemälde auf Spinnengewebe. Painting on Cobweb. Peinture sure toile d'araignée.
by Unterberger, Franz
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Gemälde auf Spinnengewebe. Painting on Cobweb. Peinture sure toile d'araignée.: Dein Wohl", painting by Rudolf Epp
by Unterberger, Franz
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Innsbruck, 1870. Cloth. Paper pastedown on buckram. . Very Good. Beautiful ethereal painting of Tyrolean couple, a hunter and his wife, at a small kitchen table, the wife standing a drinking wine presumably to the health of her husband, both in traditional dress. Based on a painting by the German (Bavarian) painter, Rudolf Epp (1834 - 1910) entitled "Dein Wohl", based on a penciled inscribed caption in the lower corner of the matting. This painting, whose present location we do not as yet know, served as the basis for other adaptations, such as the image on a beer stein, and so the painting surely was well-known and highly regarded in its day as a masterful bit of sentimentalism and nostalgia. This is rendered on material woven from actual cobweb. Exquisite, and scarce, with supposedly fewer than 100 paintings of this type (cobweb) paintings ever done. N.d., circa 1870s. This particular cobweb painting is particularly large for the genre. The artwork is about 11.5 by 8.5 cm, the full…
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