View Of The Highest Mount Matterhorn In The Swiss Alps

Alpine landscape with a view of the highest mountain in the Alps, the Matterhorn, the painting was painted by the famous Swiss painter Emil Berger (1890 in Waldenburg, Basel-Country canton - 1979 in Sissach).
Emil Berger, son of a watchmaker, grew up in Waldenburg and trained as a teacher at the normal school in Wettingen. As such, he taught from 1912 to 1955 at the primary school in Sissach. Berger undertook study trips to Munich, Dresden, Italy and Paris, teaching himself to become a painter. He copies Arnold Böcklin and Ferdinand Hodler and deals with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Paul Cézanne. Several working stays took him to the Bernina Hospice, Flims, Zermatt, the Bernese Oberland and St. Antönien. As a result, from 1928 he exhibited regularly in various group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel and at the Basellandschaftliche group exhibitions. In 1974 and 1978, two major personal exhibitions took place in Sissach.

Literature: Wikipedia online; Hansjakob Schaub: Impressions in the village: the Sissacher painter Emil Berger. In: Baselbieter Heimatblätter, organ of the Society for Baselbieter Heimatforschung 74th year, 2009, no. 1, p. 11-14.
inscriptions: signed lower right, on the back of the original frame is an inscription in pencil with the name of the artist and the title: Emil Berger "Matterhorn".
Technique: oil on canvas, original period frame.
Dimensions: without frame 71 x 81 cm; framed 100 x 110 cm.
Condition: good original condition.