Robert Schultze, PASTORS BY THE WATER, 1862

83.5 x 124.5cm - oil, canvas signed p.d.: R. Schultze | 1862

On the g. strip of the painting loom number (crayon): C 322 MP (repeated on the lower frame strip); in the middle: 1875; right F96 06.

On the bottom rail of the painting loom, a typewritten sheet with the artist's biography in German; on the transverse rail, a sticker (print): Bilderrahmen | Handgearbeitet; on the upper slat of the frame an engraved plate: R. Schutze.

Robert Schultze (Magdeburg 1828 - Munich 1910) - German landscape painter; began his painting studies in 1845 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden (1845), continued them in Düsseldorf - at the Academy there (1847) and with J.W. Schirmer. Later he settled permanently in Munich, from where he frequently and eagerly embarked on study trips, painting alpine landscapes - from Bavaria, Switzerland, northern Italy, as well as views from the Norwegian fjords. Beginning in 1886, he repeatedly showed his paintings at Academy exhibitions in Berlin, and also exhibited in Dresden, Hannover and London. The artist's paintings are in the collections of museums in Altenburg and Zurich, among others.