Auction 35
By Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
Apr 16, 2022
Viale Africa, 12 - 95129 Catania, Italy

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LOT 17:

Johann Heinrich Roos (Otterberg, 1631 - Francoforte sul Meno,, 1685)
Landscape with ruins, waterfalls and flock.


Start price:
5,000
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tags:

Landscape with ruins, waterfalls and flock.
17th century
Technique:
Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions:
90.5x129.5 cm, framed 116x153 cm

Signed lower right J. Roos. "His family emigrated to Amsterdam due to the Thirty Years War in 1640. He was a pupil of Guilliam du Gardijn, Cornelis de Bie and Barent Graat, but landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem and Karel Dujardin had the greatest influence on him. In 1653, the Roos family returned to Germany, where Johann and his brother Theodor Roos worked together on a commission for a cloister in Mainz. Between 1654 and 1659, Johann worked for Ernst, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (son of Maurice , lived between 1623 and 1693), where he painted a portrait of A Prince (1654, Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum) and religious scenes. In 1664 he was invited to paint at the court of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Due to conditions of unsatisfactory work, he moved with his family to Frankfurt in 1667, where he was very successful, but lost everything in a fire in 1685.

The painting in question seems to be the best the painter could express, when he wanted to represent q o the union of men and animals in idyllic harmony with nature - such was his thought that he aspired to give his representations an imprint of a realistic character, especially in rural scenes and representations of animals. In this case, there is a sense of intimate, almost familiar flavor that globalizes in a harmonizing union of landscape, and therefore of nature, men and animals. If we were led to a comparison with his son Philipp Peter, we could affirm that he remains much more humoral and intimate in the search for a link with nature as a whole, and less theatrical, almost as if he does not want to be emphasized like his son, who often adopts in the foreground scenes of animals and almost portraiture representations of the same. ASORstudio