Julius Schönrock - Landscapes At Sunset

Julius SCHÖNROCK Danzig, 1835 – Berlin, 1878 Pair of oils on wood panel Signed lower right “Schönrock” 11 x 15 cm (30 x 34.5 cm with the frame) Very beautiful gilded wooden frames decorated with laurels Julius Schönrock was a Prussian painter of the Berlin School where he lived and worked. He first studied painting at the Königsberg Academy around 1855, before joining the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1860 and becoming a student of the painter August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer. In the Romantic era of the mid-19th century in Germany, alongside the landscape schools of Munich and Düsseldorf, realistic landscape painting continued to progress in Berlin. Goethe spoke of it by saying that it “smothers all human feeling under local sentiment”. But true to nature, it has produced great landscape painters rooted in reality and whose finesse is remarkable. Menzel and Schirmer are two examples who have remained famous. Schönrock, a student of Schirmer, made his specialty landscapes with a beautiful atmospheric perspective and he regularly participated in the exhibitions of the academies of both Königsberg and Berlin. He was particularly attached to the region of Silesia, this beautiful region of central Europe straddling Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and where he went several times to paint beautiful nature.