Johann Gottfried Steffan

A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall

Lot Closed

May 26, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Johann Gottfried Steffan

Swiss

Wädenswil 1815 - 1905 Munich

A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall

singled and dated J. G. Steffan 1871 München (lower right)

oil on canvas

canvas: 22 by 16 in.; 55.8 by 40.6 cm

framed: 28 by 22 in.; 71.1 by 55.8 cm

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2008, lot 418
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Born in Switzerland, Johann Gottfried Steffan moved in 1833 to Munich, where he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste and the Polytechnikum. Impressed by Carl Rottmann’s Italian landscapes, Steffan decided to devote himself to landscape painting of lake and mountain scenes.