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Farm House

Julius Wohlers (Hamburg 1867 - Königreich 1953)


Farm House

Lot-No. 101


Oil/canvas, 52,5 x 41,5 cm, on the stretcher label of the Hamburger Kunstverein 1898. - Exhibition: 'Motive von Thomas Herbst - Gemalt von seinen Künsterclub-Kollegen', Hamburg 2015; Hamburger Kunstverein 1898. - Provenance: Collection Dieter Boretius, Hamburg. - Impressionist landscape, figure a. still life painter. W. studied 1886-89 at the Berlin Academy, in 1890 he was pupil of P. A. Schou in Copenhagen. Back in Hamburg he was among the founders of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub in 1897. Since 1896 he made designs for the Scherrebek tapestry manufacture. W. travelled Paris in 1900. In the following year he became lecturerer at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule, in 1926 he became professor at the Landeskunstschule. Almost his entire painted oeuvre was detroyed in the bombing of Hamburg in 1943; as a consequence the artist moved to the countryside. W. was teacher to most of the Hamburg plein-air painters of the first half of the 20th cent.

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Julius Wohlers: Farm House


Julius Wohlers (Hamburg 1867 - Königreich 1953)

Farm House

Lot-No. 101

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Oil/canvas, 52,5 x 41,5 cm, on the stretcher label of the Hamburger Kunstverein 1898. - Exhibition: 'Motive von Thomas Herbst - Gemalt von seinen Künsterclub-Kollegen', Hamburg 2015; Hamburger Kunstverein 1898. - Provenance: Collection Dieter Boretius, Hamburg. - Impressionist landscape, figure a. still life painter. W. studied 1886-89 at the Berlin Academy, in 1890 he was pupil of P. A. Schou in Copenhagen. Back in Hamburg he was among the founders of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub in 1897. Since 1896 he made designs for the Scherrebek tapestry manufacture. W. travelled Paris in 1900. In the following year he became lecturerer at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule, in 1926 he became professor at the Landeskunstschule. Almost his entire painted oeuvre was detroyed in the bombing of Hamburg in 1943; as a consequence the artist moved to the countryside. W. was teacher to most of the Hamburg plein-air painters of the first half of the 20th cent.

Farm House
Farm House