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Albert Anker (1831-1910), Charcoal Drawing, Dr. Scheurer, 1881

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,700.00 EUR Estimated At:2,720.00 - 3,400.00 EUR
Albert Anker (1831-1910), Charcoal Drawing, Dr. Scheurer, 1881
Albert Anker's charcoal drawing depicts a portrait of the Swiss physician Paul Scheurer and is dated 1881. In 1896, Scheurer founded the Samaritans association of Worb and became its president. The present portrait shows the doctor, middle aged, bearing a full beard. The drawing has been executed quite dynamically, yet accurately. In the area of the beard, the drawing has been smudged, which is a characteristic stylistic device of the artist.

The drawing is signed and dated lower left, ‘3 Dec 1881 Anker’. There is a label on the reverse with information on the work. The drawing is in good condition with light framing marks, especially to the lower left corner, and slight foxing on the reverse. The gilt wood frame shows only minor wear. The overall dimensions, framed, are 56 x 49.5 cm. The paper measures 38 x 33 cm.

Albert Anker (1831-1910)

A native of Ins in the Canton of Bern, the painter and graphic artist Albert Samuel Anker is one of the most important painters of Switzerland's national life. Between 1845 and 1848, he took his first private drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in Neuchâtel. In 1851, he went on a trip to Paris, where he studied the works of Nicolas Poussin and Eustache Le Sueur. Between 1852 and 1854, he attended the University of Halle. In 1854, he finally moved to Paris to entirely devote himself to painting. He studied with the painter Charles Gleyre, with whom also Pierre-Auguste Renoir should study from 1861 onwards. Between 1855 and 1860, Anker attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1859 and 1885, he regularly presented his works at the Parisian Salon. He extensively travelled to Brittany, the Black Forest, Italy, Germany, France and Belgium. In 1890, he left Paris and moved back to his hometown. Anker mainly painted portraits of children, religious and historical subjects, still lifes, and landscapes. Works by Albert Anker are today displayed in many high-ranking Swiss museums, in Bern, Zurich, Solothurn, Winterthur, Basel, Lausanne, and Neuchâtel.
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