Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland
Friedrich August Kessler (1826-1906)
1871
Friedrich August Kessler (1826-1906)
Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland
1871
28 х 39,5 cm
Wood, oil
German landscape painter. Born in Tilsit, East Prussia. His father Kristian Friedrich Kessler (1799, Königsberg - 1854. Tilsit) gave his first painting lessons. He traveled extensively in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
The painting depicts one of the most powerful and high waterfalls in the Alps. The waterfall is widely known. Writer Arthur Conan Doyle, having visited the waterfall in the late 19th century, was impressed by its beauty. He decided that his literary hero, the great sleuth Sherlock Holmes should die here, as he described in the story «Holmes' Last Case», where on May 4, 1891, the protagonist allegedly dies in a fight with the head of the London criminal world Professor Moriarty
Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland
1871
28 х 39,5 cm
Wood, oil
German landscape painter. Born in Tilsit, East Prussia. His father Kristian Friedrich Kessler (1799, Königsberg - 1854. Tilsit) gave his first painting lessons. He traveled extensively in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
The painting depicts one of the most powerful and high waterfalls in the Alps. The waterfall is widely known. Writer Arthur Conan Doyle, having visited the waterfall in the late 19th century, was impressed by its beauty. He decided that his literary hero, the great sleuth Sherlock Holmes should die here, as he described in the story «Holmes' Last Case», where on May 4, 1891, the protagonist allegedly dies in a fight with the head of the London criminal world Professor Moriarty