Toni (Anton) von Stadler, Austrian, 1850-1917.
Rural Landscape with Rainbow
Signed, inscribed, and dated 'T Stadler. / M 1906'  in the lower right.
A stunning painting depicting a landscape in a storm by Toni (Anton) von Stadler, painted in 1906.
This is one of those paintings that becomes unforgettable the minute you see it. A glorious, cloudy sky fills three quarters of the painting, while accents of light fall like gold on the grasses and shrubs in the foreground. On the left hand side, a rainbow emerges in that fleeting moment when the sun breaks through the storm.
In a substantial 19th century gilt frame.
Anton von Stadler( nicknamed Toni) was an Austrian landscape painter and lithographer born in 1850 in Göllersdorf. He was a pupil of Paul Friedrich Meyerheim in Berlin and moved to Munich in 1878, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1893, he co-founded the Munich Secession and in 1912, he became the head of the Munich art collections. Stadler was known for his landscape compositions featuring deep horizons and wide landscapes. He died in Munich in 1917.