Alpine Chalet Landscape, 1945.

Germany, 1945.

A charming mid-20th century alpine landscape oil painting depicting a traditional mountain chalet nestled within the dramatic peaks of southern Germany’s Allgäu region.

Executed in oil on artist’s board with expressive, lightly impastoed brushwork, the composition captures a timber farmhouse set against rising meadowland and craggy alpine ridges beyond—a quietly atmospheric study of rural life in post-war Bavaria.

The reverse bears the handwritten inscription:

| Hofarts im Allgäu, 1945

Hofarts is a small alpine hamlet in the Allgäu district near the Austrian border. Such regionally inscribed works were often painted en plein air or shortly thereafter.

Presented in a period-appropriate silvered frame, likely original or near contemporary to the painting.

Because every good room needs a past.