Alois Arnegger Alpine Landscape Oil Painting

Item Details

Alois Arnegger (Austria; 1879 – 1967)
Untitled (Alpine landscape), mid 20th century
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower left

A mid-20th-century oil painting on canvas by well-listed Austrian painter Alois Arnegger (Austria; 1879 – 1967). The image depicts an Alpine landscape blanketed in a thick mantle of snow, the illuminated windows of small houses at the base of mountain glowing in the winter dusk. Artist signature is signed to the lower left. This work is mounted in a beveled wood frame with a distressed gold tone finish.

Arnegger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Robert Russ, landscape artist, and August Eisenmenger, genre painter of historical subjects.
During the early 1920s, Arnegger traveled to Italy, where he became transfixed with the romantic, sensuous sites along the Mediterranean. His works completed during this time have dramatic lighting and panoramic compositions. The latter part of his life he spent back in his homeland, Austria, where he painted a great many Alpine scenes such as the one offered here. Arnegger’s works are represented in the collection of the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, as well as in many private collections.

Condition

- canvas has been re-stretched to newer stretcher bars. Light accretion and craquelure across painting. Wear to frame.

Dimensions

- canvas measures 39″ × 27.75″.

Item #

18CIN698-040