Die Lautenschlagerin Antique Portrait Oil on Canvas Painting After Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920)
This is a finely painted oil on canvas after the original painted by Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920) in 1882 in Munich known as Die Lautenschlagerin, or portrait of a young lady in full figure. Signed A Zienert. Canvas was relined and varnished and resides in a lovely frame with metal frame with carved gesso vine motif. Frame measures 49 x 35 x 3 in. There are some recent losses to the gesso as seen in our images.
She appears to be holding a mandolin or tar, from the Persian word chartar, which arrived in Spain and is also known as the quitarra or chitarra. A successful portraitist and painter of historical subjects, Kaulbach was the son of Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach Wilhelm Kaulbach, another leading member of the Kaulbach family of painters. He is said to have emulated the German master, Hans Holbein. After moving to Munich in 1871 he acquired numerous patrons from among the elite and nobles in Munich society, and acquired the moniker, "Painter Prince", by his contemporaries. In the following decade he was appointed director fo the Munich academy. ( Viennese Austrian German )
