Lane in Taormina
Carl Arp (Kiel 1867 - Jena 1913)
Lot-No. 38
Oil/canvas, 119 x 54 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. C. Arp 89 as well as inscribed 'Taormina Sicilien', on the reverse inscribed 'No. 637', some rest. - Exhibition: The painting was exhibited: Der Kieler Maler Carl Arp, Kieler Stadtmuseum 2016. - Literature: The painting is published in: U. Schulte-Wülwer/ T. Wolf-Timm: Der Kieler Maler Carl Arp, exh. cat. 2016, p. 38. - Provenance: Estate of the artist. - German landscape painter. A. studied since 1886 at the Weimar academy under Th. Hagen a. L. von Kalckreuth, followed by a sojourn of several years in Italy. He returned to the Weimar Kunschule in 1891 but quit without degree in 1894 because one of his paintings was withdrawn from an exhibiton by order of the Weimar duke. Thereafter he worked in Kiel a. Weimar a. travelled extensively. In 1912 he was made professor. He exhibitied in Munich, Berlin a. Düsseldorf. A. was a close friend of Christian Rohlfs.
Carl Arp: Lane in Taormina
Carl Arp (Kiel 1867 - Jena 1913)
Lane in Taormina
Lot-No. 38
Oil/canvas, 119 x 54 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. C. Arp 89 as well as inscribed 'Taormina Sicilien', on the reverse inscribed 'No. 637', some rest. - Exhibition: The painting was exhibited: Der Kieler Maler Carl Arp, Kieler Stadtmuseum 2016. - Literature: The painting is published in: U. Schulte-Wülwer/ T. Wolf-Timm: Der Kieler Maler Carl Arp, exh. cat. 2016, p. 38. - Provenance: Estate of the artist. - German landscape painter. A. studied since 1886 at the Weimar academy under Th. Hagen a. L. von Kalckreuth, followed by a sojourn of several years in Italy. He returned to the Weimar Kunschule in 1891 but quit without degree in 1894 because one of his paintings was withdrawn from an exhibiton by order of the Weimar duke. Thereafter he worked in Kiel a. Weimar a. travelled extensively. In 1912 he was made professor. He exhibitied in Munich, Berlin a. Düsseldorf. A. was a close friend of Christian Rohlfs.