(Hall, Tyrol 1910–2001 Vienna)
”Porphyrgebirge”, signed, dated M. Weiler 72 as well as signed, dated and titled Max Weiler 1972 Porphyrgebirge on the reverse, egg tempera on plywood, 43.5 x 63.5 cm

Registered and illustrated:
Wilfried Skreiner/Almut Krapf, Max Weiler, Residenz Verlag, 1975, p. 399, cat. rais. no. 749

Exhibited:
Max Weiler, Landschaft auf tönenden Gründen - Gemälde, Graphik 1969–1973, Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, 27 April - 25 May 1973, cat. no. 5

Provenance:
Dr. Werner Sauerwein, Innsbruck
Herbert Danler (1928–2011), painter
Private Collection, Tyrol

“I make the airs, the spirit, trees, grasses and things of nature with my own forms. Nature, however, does not let her spirit work if her forms are desecrated. Instead she withdraws, leaving behind an amusing, even good picture – and offering her compliments and best regards!”
Max Weiler, Tag- und Nachthefte, 1974

Porphyritic microstructures are large inclusions in an otherwise fine-grained groundmass. The term porphyry is in fact only used for igneous rocks. In this case, the ingots consist of large individual crystals that have developed in the smelting process. The structurally similar characteristics of the Rotliegend sediments led to the (false) name “Pingarten porphyry”.