Lot 457: At the Courland Spit

Wentscher Julius, Graudenz 1842 - Berlin 1918, At the Courland Spit, Oil/canvas, 66,5 x 112 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. J. Wentscher Berlin 1888, on the stretcher adress label of the artist, min. dam. - German landscape painter. After beginning his training at the Königsberg academy W. continued his studies in Berlin under H. Gude. He lived a. worked in Berlin, but subjets from the Baltic sea a. the Courland Spit were distinctive for his oeuvre. - Mus.: Braunschweig, Königsberg. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker.