S.S. Meteor in the Strait of Messina
Adolf Bock (Berlin 1890 - Helsingborg 1968)
Lot-No. 565
Gouache. 26,5 x 34,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. Adolf Bock and titled, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - German Marine and veduta painter. B. was pupil of H. Bohrdt, thereafter he studied at the Berlin academy with a scholarship granted by the emperor. Since 1919 he lived and worked in Finland. He was among the few surviving passengers of the shipwreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945. Mus.: Berlin, Stockholm. Lit.: Vollmer.
Adolf Bock: S.S. Meteor in the Strait of Messina
Adolf Bock (Berlin 1890 - Helsingborg 1968)
S.S. Meteor in the Strait of Messina
Lot-No. 565
Gouache. 26,5 x 34,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. Adolf Bock and titled, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - German Marine and veduta painter. B. was pupil of H. Bohrdt, thereafter he studied at the Berlin academy with a scholarship granted by the emperor. Since 1919 he lived and worked in Finland. He was among the few surviving passengers of the shipwreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945. Mus.: Berlin, Stockholm. Lit.: Vollmer.
