Altenkirch, Otto (1875 Ziesar - 1957 Siebenlehn)

Lot 2004 limit € 90

Watercolor on paper, Ravensteiner Wiesen, under the sheet in the passe-partout the artist's signature in lead, signs of age (including small traces of attachment at the corners), sheet approx. 31 x 27.5 cm, with passe-partout approx. 44.5 x 34.5 cm , before 1900, landscape painter, after an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, 1899-1906 studied at the Berlin and Dresden Art Academy under Eugen Bracht, Paul Prozess and Emanuel Hegenbarth, 1910-20 director of the painting hall of the Royal Court Theater in Dresden, 1917 professorship for atmospheric impressionistic landscapes, member 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