Gustave Adolph Wiegand Landscape Oil Painting of Forest Scene

Item Details

Gustave Adolph Wiegand (New York/Germany, 1870 – 1957)
Untitled (forest landscape)
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower right

Gustave Adolph Wiegand was born in Bremen, Germany. He studied at the Dresden Royal Academy of Arts under landscapist Eugen Bracht and the Royal Academy in Berlin before emigrating to America, where he worked in New York under William Merritt Chase. Wiegand was awarded at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, and he was the recipient of the Second Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1905 with Moonrise, Early Spring, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum. He was a member of the Salgamundi Club, the Allied Artists of America, and the New York Society of Painters and exhibited across the United States.

Condition

- stretcher marks; slight waving to canvas; scattered craquelure and accretion; nicks, scratches and accretion to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 15.5" W x 19.5" H.

Item #

ITMG344358