Rail Road Bridge over the Thames
Lesser Ury (Birnbaum 1861 - Berlin 1931)
Lot-No. 18
Oil/cardboard/cardboard, 31,5 x 23,5 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. L. Ury London 1926, on the reverse estate no. 585. - Provenance: Estate of the artist; Private collection Berlin; Villa Grisebach, special auction Lesser Ury, 7th June 1996, lot 174; private collection Berlin. - Landscape and figure painter, distinguished in depicting Berlin urban life in a colourful impressionism. U. studied at the Düsseldorf academy under J. J. H. Müller and in Brussels under J. F. Portaels, who recommended him to L. Bonnat. He went to Paris to continue his studies under J. Lefèbvre. In 1887 he settled in Berlin where he established connections with W. Uhde and M. Liebermann. The Michael Beer prize awarded him in 1890 allowed him to go to Italy. U. had numerous exhibitions, among others at the Berlin secession in 1922 and in the Berlin National Gallery in 1931. Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Görlitz, Graz. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, D. Rosenbach: L. U., das druckgraphische Werk, 2002.
Lesser Ury: Rail Road Bridge over the Thames
Lesser Ury (Birnbaum 1861 - Berlin 1931)
Rail Road Bridge over the Thames
Lot-No. 18
Oil/cardboard/cardboard, 31,5 x 23,5 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. L. Ury London 1926, on the reverse estate no. 585. - Provenance: Estate of the artist; Private collection Berlin; Villa Grisebach, special auction Lesser Ury, 7th June 1996, lot 174; private collection Berlin. - Landscape and figure painter, distinguished in depicting Berlin urban life in a colourful impressionism. U. studied at the Düsseldorf academy under J. J. H. Müller and in Brussels under J. F. Portaels, who recommended him to L. Bonnat. He went to Paris to continue his studies under J. Lefèbvre. In 1887 he settled in Berlin where he established connections with W. Uhde and M. Liebermann. The Michael Beer prize awarded him in 1890 allowed him to go to Italy. U. had numerous exhibitions, among others at the Berlin secession in 1922 and in the Berlin National Gallery in 1931. Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Görlitz, Graz. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, D. Rosenbach: L. U., das druckgraphische Werk, 2002.