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A VOC East India Man

Claus Bergen (Stuttgart 1885 - Lenggries 1964)


A VOC East India Man

Lot-No. 589

Proceeds : 4.400 €


1944. Oil/canvas. 57,5 x 66,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Claus Bergen 1944. - German marine painter. B. studied at the Munich Academy under C. von Marr. He undertook study trips to England and the U.S., so he stayed several times in the fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall until the outbreak of the First World War. He was the only German marine painter who was able to travel on a submarine during the First World War. Good relations with the top echelons of the navy and air force ensured him excellent commissions time and again, but he also participated in the decoration of the German Museum in Munich. A retrospective at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven in 1982 honored his life's work. Mus.: Munich, Wuppertal, Nuremberg, London. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Jensen: Kiel und die See, Hormann/Kliem: C. B. - Marinemaler über vier Epochen.

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Claus Bergen: A VOC East India Man


Claus Bergen (Stuttgart 1885 - Lenggries 1964)

A VOC East India Man

Lot-No. 589

Proceeds : 4.400 €

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1944. Oil/canvas. 57,5 x 66,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Claus Bergen 1944. - German marine painter. B. studied at the Munich Academy under C. von Marr. He undertook study trips to England and the U.S., so he stayed several times in the fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall until the outbreak of the First World War. He was the only German marine painter who was able to travel on a submarine during the First World War. Good relations with the top echelons of the navy and air force ensured him excellent commissions time and again, but he also participated in the decoration of the German Museum in Munich. A retrospective at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven in 1982 honored his life's work. Mus.: Munich, Wuppertal, Nuremberg, London. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Jensen: Kiel und die See, Hormann/Kliem: C. B. - Marinemaler über vier Epochen.

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