Lot 153
Andreas Roth (German-born American, 1872-1949). Mountains and Stream. Oil on canvas, 1938. Signed with year in lower right. A stunning painting by German-born artist Andreas Roth depicting natural stream cascading through a dense coniferous forest as the rocky crags of a mountain face tower in the background, all beneath a sky of fluffy cumulus clouds. The translucent waters gently flow over the stones with wildflowers blooming at its shore. Painted in 1938, this piece was created one year after Roth began a series of trips to Canada on Lake Louise, where he rediscovered the snowy and glacial landscapes he had painted in Europe in his youth, and thus likely portrays the peaks of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Size of painting: 23.25" W x 17.25" H (59.1 cm x 43.8 cm); of frame: 30" W x 24" H (76.2 cm x 61 cm)
Son of the sharecropper Johannes Roth (1835-1904) and Anna Maria Ullrich (1842-1910), Andreas Roth was educated in a peasant family of Catholic religion. In November 1897, at the age of twenty-six, he moved to Munich where he studied at the Academy of Art with Professor Gysis. At the academy he met Amalia Liepold (the daughter of one of his teachers) and their son Albin was born from their relationship in 1898. Roth constantly travelled around locations in Europe, including Switzerland, Austria, and northern Italy, painting mainly natural and urban landscapes. He married Mathilde Speckbacher (1884-1958) and his son Hermann was born in Riva del Garda on June 25, 1912 . In 1917, he officially resumed his residence in his hometown near Kleinochsenfurth.
On 10 January 1931, his son Hermann died of pneumonia and shortly thereafter, the now sixty-year-old painter Andreas Roth decided, with a twist, to move to the United States, to Los Angeles. Here, thanks to his sociable nature, he manages to have some success painting portraits, flowers, and landscapes. He settled at the King Edwards Hotel in Los Angeles, hence perhaps inspiring the nickname Edward Andreas by which he is often known in America. He worked for two years for an American public defense office (defense ministry); therefore, the mystery of this German artist who moved to America before the rise of Hitler for reasons still partly obscure, deepens even more. In 1937, he began a series of trips to Canada on Lake Louise where he rediscovered the snowy and glacial landscapes - similar to the Alpine States he had visited in his youth. He died of lung cancer on December 5, 1949 in Los Angeles. Many of his paintings were the subject of a series of postcards for the Austrian publisher Ferd Morawetz of Salzburg. However, he himself was an independent publisher (Verlag Andreas Roth Riva am Gardasee) of a series of postcards that portrayed pictures of the places he painted in the upper Garda Trentino.
Provenance: private southern California, USA collection, acquired in December 2021; ex-Briggs Auction, Inc., Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania, USA,
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- Condition: Signed with year in lower right. Three-quarter inch tear to canvas in upper middle left and slight grime to surface. Otherwise, nice imagery and pigments. Set in custom period frame with patina in areas. Suspension wire on verso for display.
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