CARL LUDVIG MESSMANN (COPENHAGEN 1826-1893 GOTHENBURG)

CARL LUDVIG MESSMANN (COPENHAGEN 1826-1893 GOTHENBURG)
Two trees by a path
Signed, dated and inscribed L. Messmann / 22 /Juli 1846 Kall.[?] (lower right). Further inscribed L. Messmann. del.1846. on the old mount.
Collector's mark (lower left, L.420)
pen and black ink
15.7 x 20 cm

PROVENANCE:
Benjamin Wolff, Engelholm, Denmark (L. 420), with his drystamp at the lower left.
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.