Artist Index: Artists' Ball, Munich

Group portraits of costumed members of the artists' society "Stubenvoll", Munich. 1853. 2 extensively hand-painted salt prints. Each 26 x 21 cm. Mounted to board, sitters' names and annotated Narrenball 1853 im Odeon in ink below the images on the mount.
The portrayed participants of this artists' ball in Munich are Füssli, Thomberg, Dr. v. Wenzel, Liersen and C. Freiherr v. Seckendorf. The society was named after the Munich artists' club Stubenvoll, where it was founded in 1844. In this same year Friedrich Wilhelm Schoen painted a 50 figure portrait of the group which is now in the collection of the Münchner Stadtmuseum. Very rare, early salt prints, heavily painted and theatrically posed. – In very good condition.