Liesegang, Helmuth (1858 Duisburg - 1945 Leipzig)

Lot 1512 limit € 20

Etching, wintry city view with a wide river, a bridge leading to the market square, signed in lead lower right, behind passe-partout and glass in a black frame, signs of age, sheet section approx. 42.5 x 51 cm, with frame approx. 60.5 x 69, 5 cm, studied from 1877-86 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Eugen Dücker and Carl Ernst Forberg, among others, together with Arthur Kampf in Paris in 1885, particularly impressed by the school of Barbizon and Jean-François Millet, met Max Liebermann and became friends with Olof Jernberg, 1889 co-founder of the "Lucas Club" as an association of landscape painters, participation in the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland, the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession, 1943 Goethe Medal, 1944 Cornelius Prize, after air raids on Düsseldorf at the end of the Second World War Move to Leipzig