1900s Oil Painting on Wood Buffalo & Calf by Karl Appel 1866-1937 Pietro Del Vecchio With Wax Stamp

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The product is an oil painting on wood featuring a buffalo and calf, created by artist Carl Appel . This … Read more The product is an oil painting on wood featuring a buffalo and calf, created by artist Carl Appel . This artwork falls under the category of paintings and art, with a production technique of oil painting and a subject focused on a buffalo.
Carl Appel (German, 1866-1937):
Style: An animal painter from Altona/Hamburg, trained in Düsseldorf, focusing on wild animals and landscapes.
Focus: Specialized in animal subjects, exhibiting in Düsseldorf and Munich.
Painting: 9.25" x 6.25"
with frame 13.5 x 9.75"

Has wax stamp, inventory number and gallery tag from Pietro Del Vecchio Gallery in Leipzig Germany. Info on the art gallery below.

An old German painting with a wax stamp on the back likely signifies an owner's mark, collection inventory number, or authentication from a gallery/guild, helping to establish its provenance (history of ownership) and authenticity, with seals bearing family crests, initials, or specific symbols identifying its journey through important collections or institutions, like a passport for the artwork. These marks, from noble families or royal collections, are invaluable clues for art historians to trace a piece's past ownership and context, revealing its story.

On October 1, 1799, Pietro del Vecchio (1768–1829), an Italian from Moltrasio in Lombardy , opened a "shop for art and small wares" in a vaulted cellar in Auerbach's Courtyard in Leipzig. Such combinations—art and soap, suspenders, toothpicks, and the like—were quite common at the time. As for art, he offered paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts, as well as picture frames.

After del Vecchio's death, Gotthelf Ehrenfried Süßmilch (1767–1830) [ 1 ] took over the business. He relocated it to Petersstraße , acquired a "magazine of mathematical, meteorological, optical, and physical instruments," and renamed his shop "Art, optical, haberdashery, and haberdashery." He also founded an "art and publishing house" for printed matter under the name Pietro del Vecchio.

When he died just one year later, his widow, Dorothea Wilhelmine, continued the business, entering into a partnership with the grocer Carl Heinrich Ploß in 1832 and transferring her shares to her son Otto Süßmilch (1808–1872) in 1834. After Ploß's death, Süßmilch ran the company, now purely as an art dealer and publishing house, until 1872. Initially, he expanded the business to include a picture and mirror frame factory, which was licensed by the Royal Saxon Court in 1842. In 1848, the art dealership moved into the building at Markt 10, known as the "Kaufhalle," where a permanent art exhibition with ongoing temporary exhibitions was established on the second floor. Süßmilch was the first in Germany to achieve this combination of exhibition and trade, making "Del Vecchio" the most important art dealership of its time in Leipzig. A Friends' Association with over 1,200 members was founded for the exhibition.

After Otto Süßmilch's death in 1872, his sons, Arnold Ferdinand and Oswald, took over the business. They introduced Impressionism , Symbolism , and Art Nouveau , the modern movements of the time , into exhibitions and sales. In 1881, the company was awarded the title of "Royal Saxon Court Art Shop." In 1900, the former authorized signatory, Andreas Fischer-Thorer, took over the art shop, including its exhibitions and frame production, from Arnold Ferdinand Süßmilch and the heirs of Oswald Süßmilch, who had already died in 1899.

That same year, the business moved to prestigious premises on Markgrafenstrasse near Burgplatz. Apart from a few exhibitions of modern art from the early 20th century, Del Vecchio remained more closely tied to tradition. A flourishing business branch was established by catering to the growing art consumption of broader sections of the population through appropriately framed reproductions of paintings. On December 4, 1943 , the business premises fell victim to the bombing of Leipzig. After the Second World War, the Del Vecchio art gallery moved to Thorerstrasse in the Leutzsch district (today Paul-Michael-Strasse), but was never able to fully recover from the effects of the war and, after 154 years of existence, ceased operations in 1953. However, after the decision to build socialism in the GDR, announced at the Second Party Conference in 1952





An old German painting with a wax stamp on the back likely signifies an owner's mark, collection inventory number, or authentication from a gallery/guild, helping to establish its provenance (history of ownership) and authenticity, with seals bearing family crests, initials, or specific symbols identifying its journey through important collections or institutions, like a passport for the artwork. These marks, from noble families or royal collections, are invaluable clues for art historians to trace a piece's past ownership and context, revealing its story. See less