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Alexander Maximilian Seitz (1811–1888) was a German painter active in Munich and later Rome, where his son Ludovico also worked. His practice encompassed history painting, genre scenes and frescoes. Associated with Cornelius and Overbeck, he contributed to religious decoration in Munich’s Allerheiligenkirche and subsequently, with his son, in the cathedral at Đakovo.
Joseph Being Sold into Slavery, exhibited in Munich in 1829, adopts motifs by Overbeck known through a lithograph by Hans Jakob Oeri; Seitz rearranges the figures and expands the landscape. In The Angel Appearing to Joachim, painted in oil on panel in Rome in 1866, the apocryphal announcement of Mary’s birth continues this religious inquiry. These works bring together Nazarene models, careful draughtsmanship and the representation of sacred narratives.
This profile brings together identity references for Alexander Maximilian Seitz and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Watercolour
Vierge à l'enfant entourés de 4 anges musiciens et des tétramorphes
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2023-09-06 — 2023-09-20
Published result : 1000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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Vierge à l'enfant entourés de 4 anges musiciens et des tétramorphes
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2023-05-25 — 2023-06-07
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
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