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Item #1 - Carl Weber Watercolor


Artist: Carl Phillip Weber (American, 1850 -1920)
Object: painting
Title: Evening Landscape
Medium: watercolor on paper mounted on board
Description: evening landscape scene with trees in the background and water and grasses in the foreground
Signature: signed in the lower left hand corner, ‘Carl Weber’
Dimensions, Sight: 13 ¾” h x 25 ¾” w
Framed: 26 ¾” h x 38 ¾” w
Date: circa 1880
Condition: good, however, it has been glued on board and has not been loosely framed which protects the value of the art.

Comments: Landscape painter Carl Philip Weber was born in Darmstadt, Germany. His parents were the musician Carl Weber and his wife, Eleanore Weber. Carl Weber is believed to be the older brother of the Romantic landscape painter Paul Weber who worked in Philadelphia from 1849-1860.

The strict, refined style which characterizes Carl Weber's landscapes can be attributed to his uncle, also named Paul Weber (1823-1916), who was the renowned German landscape painter under whom he studied in Darmstadt and Munich. Paul Weber was also the teacher of famous landscape artists Thomas Moran and Edward Lewis. Carl P.Weber continued his training under sculptor and muralist August von Kreling in Nuremberg.

Although his artistic training occurred in Germany, Carl Philipp was raised primarily in the United States after he emigrated in 1853 to Germantown with his parents, musician Carl Weber and his wife Eleanore Bonnet Weber.

Carl Philipp's early work was influenced by the 19th century Romantic movement.

At the age of 30, Carl Philipp opened his own studio in Philadelphia, and demonstrated his profound admiration of nature by focusing exclusively on landscapes in the German Romantic tradition. In Philadelphia, he was said to have "few equals and no superiors" in the field of watercolor painting. Many of his works suggest that he painted his large canvases from sketches both produced in the field and from his imagination.


Replacement Value: $2,200.00