Ferdinand Brunner (Wien 1870-1945) Die alte Mühle (The old mill), signed and dated FERDINAND BRUNNER 1906, on the reverse label of the Künstlerhaus 1906/ 1339 and export stamp of the Austrian Monument Office (Bundesdenkmalamt), oil on canvas, 135,5 x 160 cm, framed Provenance: Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 11 September 1958, lot 17 Private collection, Vienna Exhibited in: Künstlerhaus Wien, 1906 (titled “Die alte Mühle”) “I am probably a Naturalist in my reverence for the true form. And yet, I can also be regarded as a Romantic, for all my landscapes display a very specific meaning: ‘vastness, simplicity and peace.” Ferdinand Brunner