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Désiré THOMASSIN (Attributed to)
Vienna, 1858 - Munich, 1933
Oil on panel
32 x 50 cm (42 x 60 cm with frame)
Inscribed on the back "Thomassin / Brésil".
Désiré Thomassin was an Austrian painter and composer. He studied music in Munich between 1877 and 1881 with Josef Rheinberger and Max Hieber. Thomassin initially worked as a composer, but without success, he turned to painting. Today, Désiré Thomassin is better known as a painter than as a composer.
Thomassin is said to have studied with Wilhelm von Diez at the Akademie der Künste in Munich. He later worked for the Munich art dealer Jakob Anger, taking photographs that he signed "Désiré Renardt".
Thomassin painted rural genre scenes and coastal landscapes in a naturalistic style. He was close to the Dachau artists' colony and later became a member of the Reichsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands between 1927 and 1933.
A mysterious inscription appears on the back of the painting: "Thomassin / Brésil". If the style of the painting corresponds to the workmanship of Austrian painter Désiré Thomassin, the inscription "Brésil" could correspond to the destination of the paintings: decirar tableaux painted for a clientele in Brazil. European painters, particularly French, are known to have painted picturesque European landscapes, especially of the Alps, for a wealthy clientele in Brazil.
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