Ditch in a Moor
Fritz Overbeck (Bremen 1869 - Worpswede 1909)
Lot-No. 85
Ca. 1892, oil/canvas, 31 x 24 cm, lo. le. sign. F. Overbeck. - Expertise: Gertrud Overbeck, Bremen, 1.9.15. - One of the most important German landscape painters of the turn of the century. O. studied 1889-93 at the Düsseldorf academy, among others under E. Dücker a. P. Janssen. In 1894 he joined the Worpswede artist's colony the style a. subjects of which he influenced decisively. In 1905 he left the artist's colony a. moved to the nearby Bremen-Vegesack where he - after travelling widely - included motifs from Sylt a. Switzerland to his repertoire.
Fritz Overbeck: Ditch in a Moor
Fritz Overbeck (Bremen 1869 - Worpswede 1909)
Ditch in a Moor
Lot-No. 85
Ca. 1892, oil/canvas, 31 x 24 cm, lo. le. sign. F. Overbeck. - Expertise: Gertrud Overbeck, Bremen, 1.9.15. - One of the most important German landscape painters of the turn of the century. O. studied 1889-93 at the Düsseldorf academy, among others under E. Dücker a. P. Janssen. In 1894 he joined the Worpswede artist's colony the style a. subjects of which he influenced decisively. In 1905 he left the artist's colony a. moved to the nearby Bremen-Vegesack where he - after travelling widely - included motifs from Sylt a. Switzerland to his repertoire.