"Bust Portrait of Schrebenhausen: An Original Expression of Art"

(1836 Schrobenhausen – 1904 Munich) "Campagnola." Original title. An expressive portrait, executed with powerful and swift brushstrokes and thick application of paint, painted in 1858 in Rome, this bust portrait of a shepherd surpasses ordinary genre painting and conventions. It belongs to the artist’s early works and combines stylistic influences of Gustave Courbet’s realism, the Barbizon school, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Lenbach studied at the Academy in Munich from 1854, and from November 1857 – under Karl Theodor von Piloty. From August to November 1858, Lenbach made a research trip to Rome together with Piloty. One of the results was the completed painting "Arch of Titus" in 1860 (in the National Gallery in Budapest) and "Italian Boys" from 1859 (in the Castle Museum in Weimar). In the same year (1859), the painting "The Red Umbrella" was created, an early work of German Impressionism (in the Kunsthalle Hamburg). Oil, canvas; signed and dated 1858 with the location – Rome; label from the 9th International Art Exhibition in Munich. Size 50 cm x 41 cm. In a frame. Literature: Catalogue "Lenbach Exhibition," organized by the Central Committee of the 9th International Art Exhibition in Munich, 1905, No. 173, p. 27.