WORK: Landscape of Württemberg
ARTWORK AT ROCKY RIVER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Landscape of Württemberg
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DESCRIPTION:
The Schlathers owned a large Rocky River estate at 2185 Wooster Road, overlooking the Rocky River, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this time they also traveled abroad and purchased many fine artworks and furnishings. Mr. Schlather died in 1918, but Mrs. Schlather survived him by many years. In 1954, she bequeathed $100,000 to the library in honor of her husband. This gift funded the Library’s first major expansion that was completed in June 1956, five months after Mrs. Schlather’s death. Many of the couple’s art works and furnishings were donated to the Library, including this landscape painting of the province of Württemberg, Germany, where Leonard Schlather spent his childhood, before immigrating to Cleveland in 1852.
