South German Mountains Rhine Valley Landscape W Chapel 1867 Framed Oil Painting

Contrast and brilliant in color, painted in confident brushstrokes by renowned Arnold Forstmann (1842 - 1914), German landscape-painter. Besides the typical composed romantic landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting Forstmann painted vedute of the Rhine Valley and the Alps. Even Forstmann's vedute are no exact copies of the real landscapes. As a rule, Forstmann varies the dimensions of selected elements of landscape in order to intensify the artistic expression. But these variations will never destroy the original impression of the real landscape. The vedute of the Rhine river valley (Rolandseck, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels, Stolzenfels Castel) and of the Alps (Chiemsee, Königssee) are well known and there are many of landscapes. Some dealing with the so-called "wild romantic" genre, showing wild mountain-streams bordered by watermills and crossed by staggering bridges… Antique oil painting on canvas, signed, framed. 
Size app.: 47 x 69.5  cm (roughly 18.5 x 27.4 in), frame 62 x 83.7 cm (roughly 24.4 x 33 in). Overall in very good ready to hang condition without damages, with age wear (minor loss of paint layer), more recent frame. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 3.4 kg is going to measure 6 kg packed for shipment.
Arnold Forstmann entered the Düsseldorf Academy in the third quarter of 1867. He started his artistic education in a class of landscape-painters directed by Oswald Achenbach (1827 - 1905) until 1871. In February 1872 he left the art academy; his last teacher was Albert Flamm (1823 - 1906). In the list of students of the art academy Forstmann was remarked as deaf-mute. After his education Arnold Forstmann lived in Düsseldorf as a landscape-painter. The date of the death of Arnold Forstmann is not known so far... The last record of his life is taken from a genre-portrait "In devotion" dated 1914.