Riess, Paul (1857 Fichtwerder - 1933 Dessau)

Lot 2539 limit € 180

Oil/wood, morning mood over a wide North German landscape with canal and windmills, staffage figures, signed lower right, framed, approx. 27 x 35 cm, with framing approx. 51 x 60 cm, Riess completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, then studied at the Weimar painting school and was a master student of Theodor Hagen, he made his first nature studies with Bunke from 1891 in Schwaan, from 1896 Paul Riess lived in Dessau and discovered there the beauty of the Elbe and Muldeauen