Lot 190
Andreas Roth (German, 1872-1949). Floral Still Life. Oil on canvas, n.d. Signed in lower right. A delightful painting by German artist Andreas Roth depicting a lush bouquet of glowing white and deep scarlet red flowers blossoming outward from a double-handled vase upon a white tablecloth. Scattered amongst forest green foliage, the bountiful spray is set against a warm, saffron-hued background. Part of the Post-Impressionist movement, Roth was strongly attracted to natural landscapes. This painting was likely created after the artist moved to Los Angeles in 1931 where he had success portraying portraits, flowers, and landscapes. A charming piece fit with a custom wooden frame and suspension wire for display! Size of painting: 19.25" W x 23.25" H (48.9 cm x 59.1 cm); of frame: 24.25" W x 28.25" H (61.6 cm x 71.8 cm)
Son of the sharecropper Johannes Roth (18351904) and Anna Maria Ullrich (18421910), Andreas Roth was educated in a peasant family of Catholic religion. In November 1897, at the age of twenty-six, he moved to Munich where he studied at the Academy of Art with Professor Gysis. At the academy he met Amalia Liepold (the daughter of one of his teachers) and their son Albin was born from their relationship in 1898. Roth constantly travelled around locations in Europe, including Switzerland, Austria, and northern Italy, painting mainly natural and urban landscapes. He married Mathilde Speckbacher (18841958) and his son Hermann was born in Riva del Garda on June 25, 1912.[5] In Riva del Garda. In 1917 he officially resumed his residence in his hometown near Kleinochsenfurth.
On 10 January 1931, his son Hermann died of pneumonia and shortly thereafter, the now sixty-year-old painter Andreas Roth decided, with a twist, to move to the United States, to Los Angeles. Here, thanks to his sociable nature, he manages to have some success painting portraits, flowers, and landscapes. He settled at the King Edwards Hotel in Los Angeles, hence perhaps inspiring the nickname Edward Andreas by which he is often known in America. He worked for two years for an American public defense office (defense ministry); therefore, the mystery of this German artist who moved to America before the rise of Hitler for reasons still partly obscure, deepens even more. In 1937, he began a series of trips to Canada on Lake Louise where he rediscovered the snowy and glacial landscapes - similar to the Alpine States he had visited in his youth. He died of lung cancer on December 5, 1949 in Los Angeles. Many of his paintings were the subject of a series of postcards for the Austrian publisher Ferd Morawetz of Salzburg. However, he himself was an independent publisher (Verlag Andreas Roth Riva am Gardasee) of a series of postcards that portrayed pictures of the places he painted in the upper Garda Trentino.
Provenance: private southern California, USA collection, acquired April 2023 via Alice Callahan Auction House, Wellington, Florida, USA; ex-private Palm Beach, Florida, USA collection
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- Condition: Signed in lower right. Set in custom wooden frame; some minor scuffs to frame but none affecting painting. Some light wash visible in lower half; imagery still clear. In overall very good condition with suspension wire on verso for display.
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