Oil on canvas
117 x 87 cm
Signed and dated lower right
Private Collection, Southern Germany
There is something profoundly enchanting about Emil Zschimmer’s In the Glow of the Sun. Dappled light pours onto the canopy floor, catching the lime-green, early-summer, beech leaves above. An enigmatic magic breaths through the scene, and along with the painting’s large scale, envelopes the viewer making it difficult to avert their gaze from.
Zschimmer studied at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar, with Arthur von Ramberg. Despite being briefly interrupted by military service in the Franco-Prussian War, graduated in 1872. That same year, he achieved his first artistic success when his painting, Im Hochwalde, won an award at the Academic Art Exhibition in Berlin. He taught at the Grand-Ducal School from 1882 to 1892 and in 1890 was awarded the title of Professor.
