Pippelia is a virtuoso master of late Impressionism

(1878 Łódź – 1960 Planegg) A landscape with planted trees and a stone bridge over a river, executed in a late Impressionist style, with virtuoso, free brushstrokes and palette knife technique, is a work by Pippel, who found his motifs outside Munich, especially in Upper Bavaria, the Alpine lakes, and Tuscany. Pippel studied, among other places, at the Academy in Karlsruhe with Julius Hugo Bergmann and Friedrich Fehr, as well as with Gotthardt Kuehl in Dresden; a formative experience for him was a trip to Paris in 1908, where he became directly acquainted with the art of the French Impressionists. In 1909, Pippel settled in Planegg near Munich, and in 1912 he joined the Munich art society "Ludolgruppe" and exhibited his paintings for the first time that same year in the Munich Glass Palace. Pippel was supported by the influential Munich gallerist Franz Josef Brakl, who also exhibited works by Franz Marc, Oskar Kokoschka, Van Gogh, and artists of the "Die Scholle" group. Oil on cardboard. Signed. 36 cm x 42 cm. In a frame.