Companion Pieces: Fisher Folk on the Shore
Heinrich Gätke (Pritzwalk 1814 - Helgoland 1897)
Lot-No. 75
Oil/canvas, 34,5 x 54 cm, each sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Heinrich Gätke 1840, some craquelure, one painting min. rest. - Prov.: One of the paintings formerly in the collection of Georg Gropius, archeologist and diplomat in Greece. - German landscape a. marine painter. G. initially worked in Berlin a. was possibly given lessons by K. Blechen. 1832-48 he exhibited at the Berlin academy. In 1840 he moved to Heligoland where he also worked as ornithologist. G. was the cousin of the writer Theodor Fontane. - Mus.: Hamburg. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Heinrich Gätke: Companion Pieces: Fisher Folk on the Shore
Heinrich Gätke (Pritzwalk 1814 - Helgoland 1897)
Companion Pieces: Fisher Folk on the Shore
Lot-No. 75
Oil/canvas, 34,5 x 54 cm, each sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Heinrich Gätke 1840, some craquelure, one painting min. rest. - Prov.: One of the paintings formerly in the collection of Georg Gropius, archeologist and diplomat in Greece. - German landscape a. marine painter. G. initially worked in Berlin a. was possibly given lessons by K. Blechen. 1832-48 he exhibited at the Berlin academy. In 1840 he moved to Heligoland where he also worked as ornithologist. G. was the cousin of the writer Theodor Fontane. - Mus.: Hamburg. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
