Lot 426: Birch Forest in Sunset

Rosen Gerhard Paul von
Wesenberg/Estland 1856 - Berlin 1927
Birch Forest in Sunset
Watercolour, 44,5 x 30,5 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. G. Rosen 1926, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Estonian landscape painter. Studied architecture a. painting at the St. Petersburg academy 1874-78 a. painting at the Düsseldorf academy under E. Dücker 1883-86. In 1906 he became head of the Riga art school, in 1920 he moved to Germany. - Mus.: Riga, Tartu. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.