CARL LUDVIG MESSMANN (COPENHAGEN 1826-1893 GOTHENBURG)

CARL LUDVIG MESSMANN (COPENHAGEN 1826-1893 GOTHENBURG)
Trees and a pile of logs by a barn
Signed and dated Ludwig Messmann 1849 (lower right) and inscribed Ludwig Messmann. del 1849. on the old mount.
Collector's mark (lower centre, L. 420).
black ink, with framing lines in brown ink
10.1 x 14.2 cm

PROVENANCE:
Benjamin Wolff, Engelholm, Denmark (L. 420), with his drystamp at the lower centre.
Thence by descent until 2018.

Carl Ludvig Ferdinand Messmann was a Danish landscape draughtsman, painter and lithographer. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen between 1840 and 1844. Among his favoured subjects were the nature and countryside around the Danish capital. By 1852 Messmann had settled in Roskilde, on the island of Zealand. He exhibited landscape paintings and pencil drawings, several of which were purchased by King Frederik VII, between 1850 and 1859. In 1857 he moved to Sweden. He died in Gothenburg in 1893. Drawings and paintings by Messmann are today in the collections of the Museum of Copenhagen and the Øregård Museum near Copenhagen, as well as the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm and the Malmö Konstmuseum in Malmö.