Alsatian Landscape "the Banks Of The Ill" By Auguste Cammissar

Oil on canvas by the Alsatian artist Auguste Cammissar, born in Strasbourg in 1873, died in 1962. Landscape of the Bas-Rhin representing "the banks of the Ill" signed lower right A.Cammissar Dimensions with frame 93cm x 93.5cm depth of the frame 6cm good condition

Auguste Cammissar (1873-1962) was a French artist of international stature, born in Strasbourg. The son of a glassmaker, he trained at the Karlsruhe Academy. He furthered his craft in Munich, Vienna, and Strasbourg. He was a full professor at the School of Decorative Arts in that city from 1896 to 1940, where he studied with many Alsatian artists, including Kamm, Allenbach, and Luc Hueber. He studied opal glass and created numerous stained-glass windows in collaboration with the artist Paul Braunagel (1873-1954). He participated in the first Venice Biennale in 1895, and was awarded a Gold Medal in Karlsruhe in 1901, a Gold Medal in Dresden in 1906, and a Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1925, as an interior designer. A painter from Alsace, he specializes in landscape themes in which he excels with a luminous and shimmering palette.

The Ill, the emblematic river of the Alsace plain, has its source in the foothills of the Jura, not far from Switzerland, near the Sundgau village of Winkel. It contributes to the fame of several Alsatian villages and towns: Mulhouse, whose foundation is said to be a mill built on the banks of this river, Colmar, the village of Illhaeusern, famous for the presence of the Haeberlin family's Michelin-starred restaurant "l'Auberge de l'Ill", Selestat, and Strasbourg, which crosses the historic district of Petite France. The Ill flows into the Rhine near the village of Offendorf, north of Strasbourg.