Adalbert von Roessler, "Die Landwehr vor Paris"
Group of soldiers on a hill in front of Paris, scene from the ...

Adalbert von Roessler, "Die Landwehr vor Paris"
Group of soldiers on a hill in front of Paris, scene from the Franco-Prussian War, mixed media (opaque colours and watercolour) on light cardboard, late 19th century, signed lower right "A. v. Roessler", mounted on backing cardboard and inscribed "Die Landwehr vor Paris", backing cardboard with minor losses in the corner area, approx. 22.5 x 35 cm. Artist's info: actually Adalbert Heinrich Karl Ludwig Ernst von Rößler also Rössler or Roeßler, German portrait and history painter. Portrait and history painter as well as illustrator (1853 Wiesbaden - 1922 Berlin), first as a miner administrator of his father's lead ore mines in Nassau, studied at the academy of arts in Munich from 1878, later at the academy of arts in Antwerp under Juliaan de Vriendt, 1889-90 master student of Anton von Werner at the academy of arts in Berlin, afterwards freelance in Frankfurt am Main, later in Berlin, worked among others for the magazine "Die Gartenlaube", found his motifs also in the Schwalm and in Willingshausen, 1886-1922 member of the Verein Berliner Künstler, the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft and the Verband Deutscher Illustratoren, received numerous honours such as the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, the Order of the Crown, the Württemberg Order of Frederick and the Nassau Order of the Eagle , source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Boetticher, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie, Ries, Müller-Singer, Schmaling "Künstlerlexikon Hessen-Kassel 1777-2000", Dressler, Schweers, Wollmann, "Nassauische Biographie" and Wikipedia.