(Vienna 1842–1892 Westerland on Sylt)
Steamboat Station on the Danube near Kaisermühlen, 1871, indistinctly signed, dated Schindler (18)71, verso S. Kende auction label and label of the Künstlerhaus, oil on panel, 17 x 29 cm, framed

Provenance:
Collection of Carl Sarg (1832-1895), Vienna;
Collection of Eduard Kremser (1838–1914), Vienna;
Collection of Emmerich Ullmann (1861–1937), Vienna;
His sale, S. Kende, Vienna, 12 October 1937, lot 93;
Private Collection, Vienna.

Exhibited:
1872, yearly exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna, no. 78;
1873, Vienna World’s Fair, no. 568a;
1892, memorial exhibition, Künstlerhaus Vienna, no. 28;
1894, “Das Wiener Sittenbild”, Künstlerhaus Vienna, titled “Bei den Kaisermühlen”.

Catalogued in:
Heinrich Fuchs, Emil Jakob Schindler. Zeugnisse eines ungewöhnlichen Künstlerlebens, Vienna 1970, p. 157, no. 90, ill.

Literature:
Constant von Wurzbach, Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Österreich,
Vol. 30, Wien 1875, p. 9.
Galerie Miethke, Vienna, exh. cat. LXXIII, 4. 5. 1886, Collection of Carl Sarg, Vienna, no. 91.

Künstlerhaus label 1894, 2151 confirmed by Nikolaus Domes, MA.

At the beginning of 1870, Emil Jakob Schindler rented a room in one of the old imperial mills along the Prater embankment to explore this new, picturesque, and stimulating world. The lively hustle and bustle and confusion of crates and bales, of carts and people at the docking point for steamboats fascinated him and resulted in a series of works. He painted on site on small wooden panels in horizontal format.

The present work is captivating because of the authentically captured atmosphere at the water's edge, the humid air, the muddy ground and the constant blowing of a light wind. The painter sold the picture to the collector Carl Sarg before presenting it at the Great Annual Exhibition in Vienna.