Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 1900s.
The painting is mounted its stunning original frame. The painting has some invisible restorations.
Xavier Wurth was born in 1869 in Liège - died in 1933. He was a painter of landscapes and portraits. From 1889 to 1893, Xavier Wurth was student of Witte and E Carpentier at the Academy of Fine Arts of Liège.
From 1900 to 1914, he painted the Ardennes and particularly the valleys of the Ourthe and Amblève. He then became professor of drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège. However, from 1924 illness somewhat hampered his work. Wurth has exhibited annually in the circle of fine arts of Liège and distinguished himself as a lovable landscape artist particularly skilled in the rendering of the Ardennes rivers.
From 1889 to 1893, Xavier Wurth studied with Adrien de Witte and Évariste Carpentier at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège . He exhibits on numerous occasions and was awarded the the Prix ??de Rome. He was a friend of Richard Heintz , Auguste Donnay and Albert Sirtaine, and is particularly well known for he delicate brilliance he gave to his Ardennes landscapes. A dozen of his works can be found at the Museum of Walloon Art .
He was also professor of drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège from 1921 to 1932.
Xavier Wurth, died slowly in his estate at Esneux (where he fished trout) and was known to be a 'gentle and sensitive soul'.
He had a notable influence on the painter Léon Sougné of Barvaux-sur-Ourthe (1895-1964), but his most outstanding pupil was Paul Lepage (Antwerp, 1869-La Hulpe, 1958), another jewel of the Liège School of Landscape, who practiced his art especially in the region of Remouchamps.
Dimensios including frame - 98cm x 78cm x 6cm
Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 1900s.
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