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Sun breaking through the Clouds

Johann Wilhelm Cordes (Lübeck 1824 - Lübeck 1869)


Sun breaking through the Clouds

Lot-No. 439

Proceeds : 3.200 €


Oil/canvas, 58 x 97 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. W. Cordes Dssldrf 1854, min. rest. - German landscape painter. After commercial training, C. studied at the academies in Prague and Düsseldorf. There he was probably also a private student of J. W. Schirmer. C. traveled mainly in Northern Europe and worked in many German cities. In 1860 he became an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy, and the tsar acquired one of his paintings. Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Lubeck a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

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Johann Wilhelm Cordes: Sun breaking through the Clouds


Johann Wilhelm Cordes (Lübeck 1824 - Lübeck 1869)

Sun breaking through the Clouds

Lot-No. 439

Proceeds : 3.200 €

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Oil/canvas, 58 x 97 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. W. Cordes Dssldrf 1854, min. rest. - German landscape painter. After commercial training, C. studied at the academies in Prague and Düsseldorf. There he was probably also a private student of J. W. Schirmer. C. traveled mainly in Northern Europe and worked in many German cities. In 1860 he became an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy, and the tsar acquired one of his paintings. Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Lubeck a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

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