Posted 5 years ago
getthatmon…
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This landscape is signed, but unfortunately there are two painters with the same name that I know of. The artist used a rather thick brush for his signature, which unfortunately does not exclude either one or the other of the painters. The question is how long does it take that a stretcher frame reaches this patina? 20, 40, 60 or 80years? The painting is allready cleaned the first time. The varnish is removed. It has been really dirty. It will be cleaned a second time to remove the rest of the dirt.
After that it will get a new varnish.
My comment has to do with the subject matter.
I can’t offer anything that would help you to determine age or signature though.
I believe the subject of the painting is the ancient Roman road, the Appian Way, of which small sections are said to still exist.
The road was made of stones primarily and had trees planted along its length to shade the travelers.
Maybe someone else here can read that signature. Then maybe you can find out if that artist ever made a painting of the Appian Way….if you ever do get that info, please let us know….you have me curious now!
It might be just a dirt road in the north of Germany
The artist should be Hermann Junker (Safi/ Marocco 1903 - Geesthacht/Germany 1985)
Hamburg painter and graphic artist. Junker studied at the School of Applied Arts in the class of F. Adler, A. Illies and W. Schröder and from 1926-29 at the Munich Academy with H. Groeber and L. Herterich. Junker was a member of the artists' association 'Die Palette'.