SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Peter Burnitz connected the landscape around Frankfurt with French approaches associated with Barbizon. After studying law, he lived in Paris before returning to his native city in 1857; the Taunus area then supplied his motifs. His Swiss sketchbook of 1846, in the Städel, already records close observation: mountains and villages in pencil, sometimes touched with blue or grey.
Zerstörtes Haus, a small oil on cardboard dated around 1851–1857 in the same museum, takes a ruined building as its subject. French Landscape with a Cow, held by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum on loan from Nuremberg's municipal art collections, favours dark tones and thick paint. Comparing the travel drawings with these paintings reveals several ways of constructing landscape: recording outlines, arranging masses and modulating atmosphere within pictorial space.
This profile brings together identity references for Peter Burnitz and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Schuler · Lempertz
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Oil on canvas
Hügelige Landschaft mit Burg und Kindern, zum Fluss schreitend
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2025-06-12
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 500–800
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Oil on canvas
Flusslandschaft mit Bäumen
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2019-12-09
Published result : 500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 300–400
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Oil on canvas
Flusslandschaft mit einem Kahn
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-03-16
Published result : 1116 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 1000
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Waldrand mit Rehrudel.
Öl auf Htf
Date to be documented
Published result : 550 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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