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Ferdinand Knab brought architecture and landscape together in compositions shaped by Romantic sensibilities. Training with Carl Alexander Heideloff in Nuremberg first gave him an architectural grounding. In Munich, where he arrived in 1859, he continued his education with Ramberg, Kirchner and Piloty. A stay in Italy deepened his interest in monuments and surviving fragments of buildings. Ruins, monastery courtyards and Roman landscapes became recurring motifs, while watercolour complemented his painting. This taste for evocative architecture also found a decorative application: as court painter to Ludwig II of Bavaria, he worked for the winter garden of the Munich Residenz and for Linderhof. His work thus links the study of buildings to their reinvention within landscape or palace settings.
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Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Lempertz
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Oil on wood
Ruine am Wasser
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2019-03-20
Published result : 2188 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
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Oil on canvas
Abendliche Landschaft mit antiker Tempelruine
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-09-19
Published result : 4588 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 4000
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