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Anton Hansch (1813–1876), an Austrian landscape painter, trained at the Vienna Academy under Joseph Mössmer. Journeys through the Alps sustained a practice grounded in observation and study. High mountains became his preferred subject, given a pictorial grandeur suited to the tastes of contemporary patrons and collectors and to the presentation of expansive scenery.
In The Grossvenediger, an oil on canvas at Salzburg’s Residenzgalerie, small figures and successive planes establish the landscape’s scale. Theatrical lighting turns the mountain range into a spectacle, while preparatory studies register impressions from the terrain more freely. The Albertina’s Tree Study, a pencil drawing dated between 1850 and 1870, demonstrates this attention to a close subject: another scale of observation accompanies the construction of Alpine panoramas.
This profile brings together identity references for Anton Hansch and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Walensee
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2024-09-06
Published result : 1981 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Österreichischer Bergsee mit Staffage.
Öl auf Lwd
Date to be documented
Published result : 5500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3500
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à ANTON HANSCH — Sommerliche Seeuferpartie mit Segelboot.
Öl auf Lwd
zugeschrieben
Date to be documented
Attributed
Published result : 700 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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