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

(1836 Schrebenhausen – 1904 Munich) "Campagnola". Original title. An expressive portrait executed with powerful, swift brushstrokes and thick paint application, painted in 1858 in Rome; this bust-length portrait of a shepherd transcends 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 with Piloty. Among the results were the completed painting "Arch of Titus" in 1860 (at the National Gallery in Budapest) and "Italian Boys" from 1859 (at the Castle Museum in Weimar). In the same year (1859), the painting "The Red Umbrella" was created, an early work of German Impressionism (at the Kunsthalle Hamburg). Oil on canvas; signed and dated 1858 with the location indicated as Rome; label from the 9th International Art Exhibition in Munich. Size 50 cm x 41 cm. Framed. Literature: Catalog "Lenbach Exhibition" organized by the Central Committee of the 9th International Art Exhibition in Munich 1905, No. 173, p. 27.