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Julius Zimmermann, born in Augsburg in 1824, came from a family closely connected with art education. His father, Clemens von Zimmermann, taught at the Munich Academy, where Julius himself began studying painting in 1844. His practice encompassed portraiture, historical subjects and landscape. Portraits of figures from the past, several preserved in Bavarian public collections, demonstrate this historical orientation. Alongside oil painting, he worked in drawing and watercolour, particularly when depicting towns and monuments. These architectural views extended his repertoire beyond the human figure. His career therefore brought together academic training, representations of history and attention to places, explored through several different techniques. Zimmermann died in Munich in 1906, having worked across these complementary areas of representation.
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Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer
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Oil on canvas
Rebekka und der Knecht Abrahams am Brunnen, 1851
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2018-03-21
Published result : 1938 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
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