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Julius SCHÖNROCK
Danzig, 1835 - Berlin, 1878
Pair of oils on wood panel
Signed lower right "Schönrock".
11 x 15 cm (30 x 34.5 cm with frame)
Very fine gilded wood frames decorated with laurels
Julius Schönrock was a Prussian painter of the Berlin School, where he lived and worked.
He first studied painting at the Königsberg Academy around 1855, before joining the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1860 and becoming a pupil of the painter August Wilhelm Ferdinand Schirmer. During the mid-nineteenth-century Romantic period in Germany, alongside the landscape schools of Munich and Düsseldorf, realistic landscape painting continued to make headway in Berlin. Goethe described it as "suffocating all human feeling under local sentiment". But true to nature, it has produced great landscape painters rooted in reality, with remarkable finesse. Menzel and Schirmer are two famous examples.
Schönrock, a pupil of Schirmer, specialized in landscapes with a beautiful atmospheric perspective, and regularly took part in exhibitions at academies in both Königsberg and Berlin. He was particularly attached to the Silesian region, that beautiful part of Central Europe straddling Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, to which he travelled on several occasions to paint the beautiful countryside.
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