Lot 70

Alfred Zoff (1852 - 1927) BEACH WITH BOATS IN BELGIUM

This painting with a fishing boat and a figure on the beach is an example of the unique painting of Alfred Zoff, one of the leading figures of Austrian Mood Impressionism in the early 20th century. In 1869 Zoff took landscape painting classes at the State Drawing Academy in Graz. By 1880 he had decided on art as a career and was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he studied under Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. After his father's death in 1882, his mother moved to Klagenfurt and he would visit often to paint. It remained a favorite location for the rest of his life. He also made occasional trips to Italy and Belgium. He completed his studies in 1890 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber, who acquainted him the Barbizon School. After that, he lived in Munich and Krems an der Donau. From 1907, he was a Professor of landscape and still-life painting at the Academy in Graz. He received numerous awards, including a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). Member of the Künstlerhaus Wien (from 1883) and the Hagenbund (from 1900).