LE CATANACCIO D'ANTERMOIA / ROSENGARTEN PEINT PAR TONI HALLER

TONI HALLER (1907-1944)
Catinaccio d'Antermoia  / Rosengarten (3,002m)
Italie (Trentin Haut-Adige)

 In Der Rosengarten von Sankt Cyprian,  Dolomite, huile sur toile. Collection privée

 La montagne
Le Catinaccio d'Antermoia  (3,002m) est un sommet des  Dolomites. Il constitue le point culminant du groupe du Catinaccio, en Italie. La montagne s'élève à environ 20 km à l'est de Bolzano près de la frontière avec le Trentin, mais le sommet est entièrement dans la province du Tyrol du Sud. Depuis 2003, il fait partie du parc naturel Sciliar - Catinaccio. Le groupe du Catinaccio ou Rosengartengruppe est udélimité par le val di Tires au nord, le val d'Ega au sud et le val di Fassa à l'est.
Sa caractéristique est la couleur rose qu'il prend au coucher du soleil, un phénomène optique appelé alpenglow. La première ascension vers le plus haut sommet, le Catinaccio d'Antermoia, remonte au 31 août 1872par Charles Comyns Tucker, TH Carson et A. Bernard.
Il y a deux noms originaux, relatifs aux deux versants de la chaîne qui fait office de frontière linguistique entre le latin et le monde germanophone. Le terme ladin, Ciadenac ou Catenaccio, constitue également la base de la forme italienne la plus récente et doit être renvoyé, selon Karl Felix Wolff, au roches typique du groupe1. Le nom allemand Rosengarten, utilisé du côté tyrolien du Sud, est déjà attesté depuis le 15e siècle, et fait référence à la légende du mythique roi Laurin, voulant donner une explication au phénomène de l'alpenglow.

Le peintre
Tony Haller également connu sous le nom de Hans Sterbik, était un peintre autrichien né en 1907. Peu d'informations sur sa vie sont disponibles si ce n'est qu'il a vécu et travaillé à Vienne. Son travail comprend des paysages et principalement des paysages de montagnes. Il a trouvé ses motifs dans le Tyrol, le Salzkammergut et les Dolomites. De nombreuses œuvres de Toni Haller ont été vendues aux enchères, dont "Winter in den Dolomiten" vendue en 2011 pour 7 563 $. L'artiste est mort en 1944.

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THE HOHER DACHSTEIN PAINTED BY TONI HALLER

TONI HALLER (1907-1944)

Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9,826ft)

 Austria 

In Lake Gosau with the Dachstein, oil on canvas, private collection 

The painter 

Toni Haller, also known as Hans Sterbik, was an Austrian painter  born in 1907. Not a lot of informations about his life are available except he lived and worked in Vienna.  His work comprises landscapes and predominantly mountains landcapes. He found his motifs in Tyrol, the Salzkammergut, and the Dolomites.  Many works by Toni Haller have been sold at auction, including 'Winter in den Dolomiten' sold in 2011 for $7,563. The artist died in 1944.

The mountain 
Hoher Dachstein (2, 995m - 9,826ft) is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the Drei-Lander-Berg ("three-state mountain"). The Dachstein massif covers an area of around 20x30 km with dozens of peaks above 2,500 m, the highest of which are in the southern and south-western areas. Seen from the north, the Dachstein massif is dominated by the glaciers with the rocky summits rising beyond them. By contrast, to the south, the mountain drops almost vertically to the valley floor (see above).
The summit was first reached in 1832 by Peter Gappmayr, via the Gosau glacier, after an earlier attempt by Erzherzog Karl via the Hallstätter glacier had failed. Within two years of Gappmayr's success a wooden cross had been erected at the summit. The first person to reach the summit in winter was Friedrich Simony, on 14 January 1847. The sheer southern face was first climbed on 22 September 1909 by the brothers Irg and Franz Steiner.

THE KAISER MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY TONI HALLER

TONI HALLER (1907-1944)

 Ellmauer Halt / Kaiser mountains (2,344 m - 7,690 ft) 

Austria

  in The Kaisertal in the Evening Light, 1938, Private collection 

The mountain 

The Ellmauer Halt (2,344 m - 7,690 ft) is the highest peak in the mountain massif of the Wilder Kaiser in the Kaiser range (Northern Limestone Alps) in the Austrian state of Tyrol. To the east is the summit of the Kapuzenturm, a striking and isolated rock pinnacle. In 1883 the first summit cross was erected on the mountain top.

The Kaiser Mountains or just Kaiser, are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps and Eastern Alps. It consists of two main mountain ridges – the Zahmer Kaiser ("gentle or tame emperor") to the north and the Wilder Kaiser ("wild or fierce emperor") to the south. The entire range is situated in the Austrian state of Tyrol between the town of Kufstein and the market town of St. Johann in Tirol. The Kaiser Mountains offer some of the loveliest scenery in all the Northern Limestone Alps.

The painter 

Toni Haller, also known as Hans Sterbik, was an Austrian painter  born in 1907. Not a lot of informations about his life are available except he lived and worked in Vienna.  His work comprises landscapes and predominantly mountains landcapes. He found his motifs in Tyrol, the Salzkammergut, and the Dolomites.  Many works by Toni Haller have been sold at auction, including 'Winter in den Dolomiten' sold in 2011 for $7,563. The artist died in 1944.
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