Birnstengel, Richard (1881 Dresden - 1968 ibid.)

Lot 2010 limit € 650

Oil/canvas, Saxon low mountain range landscape, pine group in the center, signed lower right and dated (19)09, also signature on the reverse side of the stretcher, old adhesive label from the Chemnitz Art Salon with numbering, in the original Art Nouveau frame, approx. 75 x 60 cm, with Frame approx. 87.5 cm x 73 cm, this may be the picture shown in the anniversary exhibition 75 years of Kunsthütte Chemnitz 1860 - 1935 - from a private collection Mountain landscape, Richard Birnstengel studied from 1901-09 at the Dresden Art Academy with Oskar Zwintscher and Gotthardt Kuehl, where he met his later close friend Georg Gelbke (their later wives were sisters), from 1930 construction of a house and work in the well-known artists' colony in Nidden (East Prussia), almost his entire life's work was lost in 1945 due to bombing raids in Dresden