Rudolf Quittner, Willows, 1904, Oil on Canvas

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Signed ‘Rud. Quittner’ on the front, no. ‘26’ on the reverse; no. “417”, ‘Quittner’ in pencil on the frame, exhibited … Read more Signed ‘Rud. Quittner’ on the front, no. ‘26’ on the reverse; no. “417”, ‘Quittner’ in pencil on the frame, exhibited in 1910 at the Künstlerhaus Vienna, see catalogue Autumn Exhibition and Memorial Exhibition Carl Freiherr v. Rud. Quittner, Vienna 1910, p. 39, cat. No. 349. Small 3 x 3 mm hole on the lower left-hand side of the picture.

The Impressionist Rudolf Quittner, born in 1872, was an Austrian landscape and genre painter who was a virtuoso at capturing the effects of air and light on canvas. He initially studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and later became a student at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he devoted himself intensively to landscape painting.

Quittner was a student of Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley and was not only inspired by Claude Monet but also encouraged by him. He traveled throughout Europe, the Orient, and North America for study purposes, and from 1901 onward, he lived in Paris during the summers and spent the winters in Vienna. Rudolf Quittner exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Vienna Künstlerhaus, and the most important art fairs of his time in Paris, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, and Dresden. His paintings were positively received by art critics and journalists of his time, and his works are now exhibited in museums such as the Belvedere and the Wien Museum. This piece has an attribution mark,
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