Evening by the Beach of the Curonian Spit (Purwin)
Karl Eulenstein (Memel 1892 - Berlin 1981)
Lot-No. 385
Proceeds : 35.300 €
1937. Oil/canvas. 95,5 x 130 cm. Lo. le. sign. Eulenstein, on the stretcher dat. by another hand 1937 as well as titled 'Feierabend am Haffstrand (Purwin)'. - Provenance: 1943 sold from the artist's studio; auction Saarbrücken 1991; there bought by Rudi Didwiszus and published by him in the Ostpreußenblatt, 19.10.1991, p. 9; at last private collection Lower Saxony. - German landscape and figure painter. After military service, E. studied 1918-23 at the Königsberg Academy with Arthur Degner and Richard Pfeiffer. He worked freelance since 1926. He remained closely connected to his East Prussian homeland until 1945 through annual visits and met there with Max Pechstein and Ernst Mollenhauer, among others. In 1967 he had to give up painting due to an eye disease. E. belongs to the important and independent representatives of the 'lost generation' active between the wars. More than 600 of his works were lost under the bombing, works of the pre-war period are of extreme rarity. Mus.: Lüneburg (Ostpreußisches Landesmus.), Regensburg (Ostdeutsche Gal.) Lit.: AKL, Künstlerlexikon Ostpreußen und Westpreußen.
Karl Eulenstein: Evening by the Beach of the Curonian Spit (Purwin)
Karl Eulenstein (Memel 1892 - Berlin 1981)
Evening by the Beach of the Curonian Spit (Purwin)
Lot-No. 385
Proceeds : 35.300 €
1937. Oil/canvas. 95,5 x 130 cm. Lo. le. sign. Eulenstein, on the stretcher dat. by another hand 1937 as well as titled 'Feierabend am Haffstrand (Purwin)'. - Provenance: 1943 sold from the artist's studio; auction Saarbrücken 1991; there bought by Rudi Didwiszus and published by him in the Ostpreußenblatt, 19.10.1991, p. 9; at last private collection Lower Saxony. - German landscape and figure painter. After military service, E. studied 1918-23 at the Königsberg Academy with Arthur Degner and Richard Pfeiffer. He worked freelance since 1926. He remained closely connected to his East Prussian homeland until 1945 through annual visits and met there with Max Pechstein and Ernst Mollenhauer, among others. In 1967 he had to give up painting due to an eye disease. E. belongs to the important and independent representatives of the 'lost generation' active between the wars. More than 600 of his works were lost under the bombing, works of the pre-war period are of extreme rarity. Mus.: Lüneburg (Ostpreußisches Landesmus.), Regensburg (Ostdeutsche Gal.) Lit.: AKL, Künstlerlexikon Ostpreußen und Westpreußen.
