Lot No. 343


Fritz Lach


(Linz 1868-1933 Vienna)
"An der Adria" (At the Adriatic), titled, signed and dated Fritz Lach (19)07, watercolour on paper, 19 x 31 cm, mounted, framed, (Hu)

The grand-nephew of Georg Waldmüller, Fritz Lach, studied at the Viennese Academy under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Until the age of 32 he was an official of the First Danube-Steamboat-Company, and in 1890 became a port official who was responsible as a harbor recorder for the book keeping of the revenues in Orsova (Romania), later in Beograd and in Regensburg. He was a member of the Austrian Künstlerbund and of the Dürerbund and was considered the most significant watercolour artist after Rudolf von Alt. He committed himself mainly to landscape watercolours. The present watercolours offered in this auction and in the following ones are professionally framed and belong to the most extensive Austrian private collection of high quality works by the artist

Specialist: Dr. Brigitte Huck Dr. Brigitte Huck
+43-1-515 60-378

19c.paintings@dorotheum.at

04.10.2023 - 16:45

Estimate:
EUR 600.- to EUR 800.-
Starting bid:
EUR 600.-

Fritz Lach


(Linz 1868-1933 Vienna)
"An der Adria" (At the Adriatic), titled, signed and dated Fritz Lach (19)07, watercolour on paper, 19 x 31 cm, mounted, framed, (Hu)

The grand-nephew of Georg Waldmüller, Fritz Lach, studied at the Viennese Academy under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Until the age of 32 he was an official of the First Danube-Steamboat-Company, and in 1890 became a port official who was responsible as a harbor recorder for the book keeping of the revenues in Orsova (Romania), later in Beograd and in Regensburg. He was a member of the Austrian Künstlerbund and of the Dürerbund and was considered the most significant watercolour artist after Rudolf von Alt. He committed himself mainly to landscape watercolours. The present watercolours offered in this auction and in the following ones are professionally framed and belong to the most extensive Austrian private collection of high quality works by the artist

Specialist: Dr. Brigitte Huck Dr. Brigitte Huck
+43-1-515 60-378

19c.paintings@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Watercolors
Auction type: Online auction
Date: 04.10.2023 - 16:45
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 27.09. - 04.10.2023

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