Oil Painting of Mountain Landscape by Carl Von Hassler [SOLD]

Carl Von Hassler was fond of painting villages and landscapes of Northern New Mexico. He moved to New Mexico in the early 1920s and established his studio in Old Town. His studio was in the original Casa de Armijo (now La Placita Restaurant). For 47 years, he painted New Mexico scenes and became an Albuquerque legend. Almost everyone living in Albuquerque in the 1920s through the 1960s knew him and had a story they could relate about him.

It appears that Von Hassler exclusively used a palette knife in this painting, resulting is a marvelous three-dimensional effect. I do not recall ever seeing one of his paintings that was exclusively rendered by palette knife.

In selecting the view he wished to paint, Von Hassler placed himself in a position where he balanced the mountains on the left of the painting against the clump of trees on the right. The mountains slope downward toward the center of the painting, thereby drawing one’s eyes to the center of the scene. Von Hassler was very astute in sighting his paintings to achieve the effect he was seeking. It is unquestionably one of Von Hassler’s finest works.

Provenance:
ex. Zaplin-Lampert Gallery
ex. Albuquerque collector
Exhibited at the “Santa Fe Tribute to Carl Von Hassler” June 2009 at adobe gallery santa fe.