KELLER-REUTLINGEN Paul Wilhelm
THE FARM OF HAPPINESS
Oil on canvas: 63.5 x 80 cm / 25 x 31.5 ins
Signed lower right
Painter of landscapes with figures.
Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen was a student of the Fine Arts Academies in Stuttgart and Munich. He exhibited from 1879 in Vienna, Munich (where he received a medal in 1892), Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Berlin.
His landscapes often include figures – farmers at work, people tending animals, children playing and loving couples – and are sensitive to changes of light according to the hours of the day and the seasons of the year.
Period:
Reutlingen 1854 - Munich 1920
German School
Exhibitions:
Frankfurt am Main - Leipzig - Munich - Stuttgart
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 7, p. 1154.