The Family
Herbert Spangenberg (Hamburg 1907 - Hamburg 1984)
Lot-No. 230
Oil/fibre board, 124 x 99 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Spangenberg 71, on the reverse titled 'Die Familie'. - German painter. After an apprenticeship as ornamental painter under O. Schmarje S. studied at the Hamburg school of applied arts under C. O. Czeschka a. J. Wohlers where he made friends among others with E. Bargheer, K. Kluth a. A. Fiedler. He travelled Paris a. Copenhagen. After a time of inward emigration during the Nazi time he joined the re-established Hamburg secession. He declined an offer of K. Hofer for a professorship in Berlin as well as the Rome prize of the Villa Massimo, but accepted the Edwin Scharff prize in 1958. S. also received numerous public commissions.
Herbert Spangenberg: The Family
Herbert Spangenberg (Hamburg 1907 - Hamburg 1984)
The Family
Lot-No. 230
Oil/fibre board, 124 x 99 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Spangenberg 71, on the reverse titled 'Die Familie'. - German painter. After an apprenticeship as ornamental painter under O. Schmarje S. studied at the Hamburg school of applied arts under C. O. Czeschka a. J. Wohlers where he made friends among others with E. Bargheer, K. Kluth a. A. Fiedler. He travelled Paris a. Copenhagen. After a time of inward emigration during the Nazi time he joined the re-established Hamburg secession. He declined an offer of K. Hofer for a professorship in Berlin as well as the Rome prize of the Villa Massimo, but accepted the Edwin Scharff prize in 1958. S. also received numerous public commissions.