Altenkirch, Otto (1875 Ziesar - 1945 Siebenlehn)

Lot 2020 limit € 180

Watercolor on paper, snow-covered landscape with house, signed lower right and indistinctly dated "Nov.21" (?), framed behind glass in a passe-partout (min. dam.), signs of age (including evenly browned, min. foxing), sheet section ca. 34 x 48 cm, with frame approx. 52.5 x 67.5 cm, landscape painter, after an apprenticeship as a decorative painter 1899-1906 studied at the Berlin and Dresden Art Academy under Eugen Bracht, Paulgang and Emanuel Hegenbarth, 1910-20 director of the Painting hall of the Royal Court Theater in Dresden, 1917 professorship for atmospheric impressionistic landscapes, member of various Dresden artists' associations, including the "Elbier", participation in exhibitions in Berlin, Munich and Dresden, among others, first personal exhibition there in 1912, numerous honors, well-known representative of late impressionist open-air painting in Saxony , represented in many public collections, lit.: Petrasch, M.: Otto Altenkirch 1875-1945, life and work, Dresden 2010