Auctions → Art auction February 2012 → Februar 2012 → Heinrich Friedrich Tank: Self-Portrait with Pipe
Oil/canvas, 18 x 14,5 cm, lo. le. fragment of a monogram a. dat. 1835, on the stretcher stamped "Ausgesondert aus der Sammlung der Kunsthalle Hamburg lt. Kommissarsbeschluss". - Prov.: Hamburger Kunsthalle; Hamburg private collection. - It is the Portrait of an Artist mentioned in Thieme-Becker. - German landscape a. figure painter, began his training at the Copenhagen academy, since 1835 he continued his studies at the academy in Munich where he became resident, his romantic landscapes absorbed tendencies of plein air painting. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), München, Leipzig. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Rump, Der Neue Rump.