Overbeck, Fritz (1869 Bremen - 1909 Bröcken)

Lot 3030 limit € 1.200

Oil/cardboard, "Birkengruppe", North German landscape with birch trees, signed in pencil "Overbeck" on the reverse, signs of age, provisional framing, approx. 44 x 57 cm, with framing approx. 50 x 65 cm, privately owned since 1944, German painter and Etcher, 1889-93 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Eugen Dücker, Peter Janssen the Elder, Olof Jernberg and Paul Vorberg, Otto Modersohn persuaded him to come to the new artists' colony in Worpswede, where he set up a studio on the Weyerberg in 1896, during this time his typical North German landscape and moor paintings were created