August Fischer (b. Copenhagen 1854, d. s.p. 1921)
“Fra Mentona”. Summer day at the coast at Menton with two elegant ladies with a red parasol. Signed and dated Aug. Fischer 85. Oil on canvas. 46×38 cm.
Exhibited: Charlottenborg 1885 no. 108.
August Fischer is particularly known for his many cityscapes from, among others, Rome and Verona in Italy and from German cities such as Hamburg and Nuremberg, where his paintings today are a kind of historical documentation of how both cities looked before they were more or less destroyed during the Second World War.
The present painting shows a completely different side of his talent, depicting the beautiful French countryside around the Mediterranean town of Menton in southeastern France near the Italian border. Two elegant women dressed in the highest fashion of the time are out on a stroll and one of them has been captured by the beautiful wild flowers along the path and has spontaneously laid down her open parasol to be able to pick them.
From the beginning of the 1880s, August Fischer was often traveling in Italy and, like here, made detours to France.
A few retouches.
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Paintings and drawings, 6 December 2023
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