Alexander Mollinger

The Dutch painter Alexander Mollinger, also known as Gerrit Alexander Godart Philip Mollinger, is listed as having been born in Utrecht in 1836 and having died in 1867. Documented works include the watercolour on paper Two girls strolling Scheveningen, signed and dated 1862. A landscape near Utrecht is signed and annotated “Near Utrecht/A Mollinger”; the catalogue notes that the inscription on the reverse is in Willem Roelofs’s hand.

Truffle hunting is listed in two exhibitions: De Haagse School. Thema van een Collectioneur at the Museum Kempenland in Eindhoven in 1992, followed by Zomergezichten at the Gemeentelijke Expositieruimte in Kampen in 1996. The watercolour Two girls strolling Scheveningen is also mentioned in Tussen realisme en impressionisme. Aquarellen van meesters van de Haagse School, presented at the Museum Kempenland in Eindhoven from November 2000 to March 2001. Bibliographical references associated with Truffle hunting include S. de Bodt’s study, Halverwege Parijs, defended in Utrecht in 1959, as well as J. Knoef’s book Van romantiek tot realisme, published in The Hague in 1947.

Works recorded at auction

Germann

House at the edge of the forest, 1865

Oil on canvas

Original catalogue wording

Haus am Waldrand, 1865
Öl auf Leinwand.

Date to be documented

Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed

View the lot at the auction house ↗